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This question is also misogynist. My mother does not have a "maiden name" she has a "last name", which has always been the same. It's not the 1950s, women don't have to subjugate themselves to their husbands name anymore.

Oh, and gay people exist. Get with the times.

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And many countries have never had the the culture of changing family names on marriage.

No. But in those countries, one's mother still had a family name at birth that is different from one's own (in almost all cases), whether she changed it at marriage or not.

And therefore one's mother's last name is even more public than a "maiden name".

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