Editing Maiden and married names (section)

===Use husband's family name===
In the past, a woman in England usually assumed her new husband's family name (or surname) after marriage; often she was compelled to do so under [[coverture]] laws. Assuming the husband's surname remains common practice today in the United Kingdom (although there is no law that states the name must be changed) and in other countries such as [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Pakistan]], [[Gibraltar]], [[Falkland Islands]], [[India]], [[Philippines]], the English-speaking provinces of Canada and the United States. Often there are variations of name adoption, including family name adoption. Usually, the children of these marriages are given their father's surname.

Some families (mainly in the US) have a custom of using the mother's maiden name as a [[middle name]] for one of the children—[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] received his middle name in this way,<ref>{{cite book|ref=Burns|last=Burns|first=James MacGregor|title='Roosevelt' (vol. 1)|year=1956|publisher=Easton Press|isbn=978-0-15-678870-0|url=https://archive.org/details/rooseveltliont00jame}}</ref> as did [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] in Britain. Some even use the mother's maiden name as a first name, such as [[Spessard Holland]], a former [[governor of Florida]] and former senator, whose mother's maiden name was Virginia Spessard.