#maiden name

[thatpollguy]

Does your surname begin with W?

Yes

No

Voting ended onNov 14, 2025

[wtf-fun-factss]

Section 393 of Quebec's Civil Code forbids women from legally taking their husbands' surnames. Click to read the full fact.

[pelagae]

I hate hate hate that "mother's maiden name" is such a common security question. I recently registered for something that didn't even give me the option to pick a different one. In this day and age, when so many women, including my mom, keep their names, it's pretty ridiculous.

Like, sure, someone could probably figure out where I went to elementary school if they looked into it. But my mom's name is much more public and takes much less digging.

Why is this shit still a thing, as if women's names are some super secret?

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Cunard Liner S.S. Mauretania arrived in New York bringing in Doris E. Fleischman, the first American married woman to travel on a maiden name passport, ca. 1925. She is pictured above with her husband, Edward L. Bernays, Associate United States Commissioner to the Paris Exposition.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[grammarknighty]

I always found it strange that Jenrya and Shiuchon's mom, Lee Mayumi, has an official maiden name yet the other Tamers' moms only has their husbands' surname:

Takato: Matsuda Takehiro and Matsuda Yoshie

Ruki: Makino Rumiko (Ruki's grandma's surname is Hata)

Juri: Katou Hajime and Katou Shizue

Hirokazu: Shiota Hirofumi and Shiota Takako

Kenta: Kitagawa Shunsuke and Kitagawa Akemi

Jenrya: Lee Jan'yuu and Lee (Yanase) Mayumi

No other moms in Tamers are provided a maiden name except Mayumi, which is strange if you think about it.

But then I learned something awhile back about Chinese and maiden names. Chinese women don't take their husbands' surnames, they keep theirs and only their children inherit their fathers' name.

I felt stupid because of course naming culture is different across the world, I grew up in a culture that doesn't even make use of surnames, why was I surprised xp

But anywho, Mayumi is Japanese. As such it's only natural she'd still take her husband's surname, Lee, but due to cross-cultural reasons, she still has the option to keep her maiden name which she may or may not have done had she and the rest of her family lived in China

Tl;dr

Cross-cultural marriage leads to a fictional Japanese woman having an official maiden name while the rest of her fellow moms don't

But seriously tho, if Ruki's mom and dad are divorced, then why is her name still Makino Rumiko? In this essay I will-

[thoughtportal]

Story Prompt: what happens when a woman’s maiden name escapes the bottle

[evilhorse]

Curse you, Storm?!

[temple-of-tickle-britches]

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