I don’t mind my ice having her maiden name as a middle name. Keeps her family name alive.
LOL wife auto-text is our friend.
We have an added complication regarding names here in Mexifornia. In Mexico, and in all Latin American countries, people’s last name (apellido) is the name of your father followed (without a hyphen) by the name of your mother. In the ordinary course of a day you go by the last name of your father. Married women do not take the name of the husband. If Mary Smith marries John Jones she remains Mary Smith. For formal occasions, like when she gets her picture in the society page, she will be called Mary Smith de Jones.
The president of Mexico in Pena Nieto (I don’t know how to type the tilda that should go over the “n” in Pena. Bill O’Reilly always calls the Mexican president by the wrong name. O’Reilly calls him “Nieto” whereas the current Mexican president should be called “Pena” or “Pena Nieto.”
Here in California and other parts of the West there are many monuments that are named after the mothers of Spanish explorers.