Technically, the first significant influx of Latino immigrants to the U.S. occurred during the California Gold Rush, or just after most of the modern boundary between the U.S. and Mexico was established at the end of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-48).
If a woman is born with the name âJane Smithâ and she chooses to marry âJohn Jones,â she might choose to change her last name to Jones, becoming âJane Jones.â In this scenario, âSmithâ would be Jane's maiden name. maiden name is the last name used by a woman before changing her name upon marriage. The practice of adopting the husband's surname after marriage is less common than it once was.
So maiden name refers to a woman's name when she was still an unmarried woman. As Madsen Sparler has said, in many cultures, when a woman gets married, she takes the family name of her husband's family, so her name changes. Let us say that your mother's name was Mary and she was born into the Smith family. Then, let us say, she married your father, whose name was Tom Jones. When she married him, she became Mrs. Jones. That is her married name, but her maiden name would always be Mary Smith.