What is my mothers maden nane?

Question

What is my mothers maden nane?

Answer 1

In the United States, your mother's maiden name is the surname of her father.

Answer 2

Her family name, before marriage.  It should be shown on your birth certificate.. and if you know her parents, it is probably the same as her fathers.  It will be different, if her mother is divorced and remarried.

Answer 3

Smith

Answer 4

Your mother's maiden name was her last name before she married your father. It was her father's last name.

My grandfather's name, for instance, was Coston, so my Mom was a Coston before she got married.

Answer 5

a 'maiden' name is the surname your mother had before her first marriage.  

One does not say that a woman who didn't marry had a 'maiden' name.   One only has a 'maiden' name after one is married....strange, that.

Answer 6

Your mums maiden name is her birth name (mainly), it's the name that she has prior to changing her name through marriage.

Answer 7

In most English speaking countries it would be her last name that she was born with.  There are some cultures that do not change their last name at marriage.

Answer 8

St. James?