I am currently working on a top secret writing project--top secret because if I fail to complete it, no one will know that there's one more project that I failed to complete. So I thought a cool way of coming up with unique character names would be to go into the California Birth Records Database, do a random search and come up with names by putting together two maiden names that I find on a given page. My two favorites?

Steelman Wong and Branch Davidian.