It’s a slightly long story - the cliff notes being that my dad was adopted and doesn’t know his lineage or history, has a really goofy difficult to pronounce last name and my mom died when I was young. I had a pretty contentious relationship with my dad, grandma Crane living with us growing up was very influential, etc so I took my mom’s maiden name to keep the Crane family tree alive since it actually had a cool history and was traceable and interesting.
The Crane family has at least 11 generations in the US going back to 1689. Supposedly Thomas Edison was descended from the Cranes on his mom’s side. It’s all Welsh, Scottish, English.
My dad is some unknown mixture of Russian, Austrian, etc. with an Italian last name.