Any surname can be a mother's maiden name. A maiden name is merely the surname a woman uses (typically her father's, given to her at birth) before she marries and takes her husband's surname if she chooses to do so.
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It's the name she had before she was married. In most cases, your mother's maiden name will be the same as the last name of your maternal grandfather (your mother's father).
Traditionally in the English-speaking world, a child uses the family name of the father. Also traditionally, when a woman marries, she takes the family name of her husband. At that point the family name she used to use, the family name of her father, is called her "maiden name" because it was her name when she was a maiden. Your mother's maiden name is usually the surname (or family name) of your maternal grandfather.
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