What's in a name?

Went to see a new doc this morning. He has kind of an unusual name and we were talking about it. He tells me that he and his wife made up their surname. She was adopted when she was a baby, and he was using his stepfather's name, so neither one had any blood ties to the names they were using, and they were starting a family so they wanted to have the same name, so they decided to make one up. I thought that was pretty cool.