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I never quite got this "mother's maiden name" thing. Isn't your mother's maiden name... your mother's current name, minus the extra surname she got when she mar
by cesarb 9y ago
I never quite got this "mother's maiden name" thing. Isn't your mother's maiden name... your mother's current name, minus the extra surname she got when she married? Why is this treated as a hard-to-discover information?
- alkhatib 9y agoIn the US and other countries it's common for a wife to take her husband's last name. Changes from "Jane Doe" to "Jane Smith"
- ricardobeat 9y agoI think he's saying the maiden name is easily found. At least in Brazil, the husband's surname is _appended_ at the end, doesn't replace the maiden one: Jane Doe Smith.
- Merad 9y agoYeah, but often (usually?) the woman's maiden name replaces her middle name. E.g. Jane Elizabeth Doe -> Jane Doe Smith. I'm pretty sure my mom's maiden name is printed on her driver's license, paper checks, etc.
- lsaferite 9y agoI know very few women that have done that TBH.
- Merad 9y agoMaybe you just didn't realize it, because it isn't very common to see someone's full name? It was very much the norm until the 80s-90s, and even today I think the majority of women still go that route. I just spent a couple minutes searching Facebook to sanity check myself, and so far all of the women I'm friends with who are under 30 and married have done it.
- reducesuffering 9y agoIn my experience, the women do that so people that knew their name pre-marriage can find them, not because that is their full name.
- ytjohn 9y agoI wouldn't use Facebook as a guide. My sisters all have done <First> <Maiden> <Last> for facebook, but none of them have legally changed their middle name. They just do it on facebook so that people can find them.
- always_good 9y agoMost if not ~all of those women are doing it so people can find them on Facebook, and people in the States rarely use the middle name field anyways except for legal docs.
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- cortesoft 9y agoThat is not super common in the US.
- sandov 9y agoIn South-America and other countries it's common for a wife to keep the name she was assigned at birth for ever.
- nikcub 9y ago"Mothers maiden name" has been used in over-the-counter banking as an authentication secret for over a century (1882 first mention[0]) Likewise DOB and SSN have been long established as auth secrets. They never should have survived the transition to the internet [0] http://splinternews.com/your-mothers-maiden-name-has-been-a-security-question-s-1793846367 http://splinternews.com/your-mothers-maiden-name-has-been-a-...
- cortesoft 9y agoOr for all the women in my family... their maiden name is their current name, because none of them change their name when they get married.
- ams6110 9y agoIt also is from an era when you would assume that a person's mother was in fact married. Less likely today.