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This means the last name a woman had when she was a girl. Not yet married. It was proper for a woman to change her last name to her husbands last name after marrying. This may have changed for some women these days. They have the choice of keeping their last name or changing it.

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A maiden name is a woman's birth surname, before she marries. In traditional Western marriages, the woman takes her husband's last name once she is married, so her original surname becomes her maiden name.

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