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The mere fact that we cannot rule out the possibility that MC does not know his mother's last name is enough to give a sense of the absurd situation that has arisenWho knows it might.
And keeping the readers from knowing it with the assumption that the MC knows what it is and is too stupid to make the link is bordering being insulting to the reader.
That is of course given that the last name becomes an actual twist.
Which I'll agree would be a long shot.