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Hi there :) my thoughts about the names:

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Adeline - ok
Agnes - makes me think good sister/bad sister
Alexandrine - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Anastasia - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Anouk - good
Arabella - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Araminta - good
Beatrice - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Bronwen - makes me think good sister/bad sister
Camille - ok, sounds similar
Cecily - ok, sounds similar
Cosima - ok
Daphne - makes me think good sister/bad sister
Edith - makes me think good sister/bad sister
Eleanora - ok
Eliza - good
Elowen - doesn't sound like a name to me sorry
Eugenia / Eugenie - Eugenia has the good/bad sister touch, Eugenie is ok
Eulalia / Eulalie - both ok
Florence - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Frances - makes me think good sister/bad sister
Gaia - ok
Georgiana - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Guinevere - good
Gwen - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Harriet - good sister/bad sister
Hebe - doesn't sound like a name to me sorry
Hedwig - doesn't go together at all!!
Helena - too "normal" combined with Romilly
Hermione - good

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I dislike

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Agnes - dated in my opinion
Anastasia
Arabella
Araminta - sounds very foreign
Beatrice - dated
Bronwen - dislike its sound
Camille - a cute name, but it doesn't flow together with RoMILLy
Cecily - again, a cute one
Cosima
Edith
Eleanora - still a cute one!
Eliza
Elowen - I also think it isn't very feminine
Eugenia
Eulalia / Eulalie - weird, sorry
Frances - too plain next to Romilly
Gaia - though an interesting one
Georgiana - sounds cheap to me
Guinevere - confusing spelling
Gwen
Harriet
Hebe - weird one
Hedwig - very old-fashioned
Helena - although a lovely name
Hermione - too much a reminder of Harry Potter, in my opinion
Hero - weird as a name, plus I think of it more of a boys name
Ianthe - interesting, but weird at the same time... especially spelling & pronunciation would cause confusion
Isadora - weird one, although I somehow like it
Juniper
Juno
Katharine
Kerensa
Keturah
Linnea - love this name, but without the apostrophe
Margot - makes sense, but very dated

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The only one I'd say really doesn't go is Cecily. As much as I love both names, they are way to similar sounding for siblings.

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I'd also probably avoid names with strong O sounds like Juno, Ophelia, Olympia and Penelope. But you could get away with those if you really loved them.

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My favourite siblings pairs from your list are:

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Romilly & Adeline
Romilly & Anouk
Romilly & Elowen
Romilly & Florence
Romilly & Juniper
Romilly & Linnea
Romilly & Vivienne

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It's easier for me to work backwards in this situation, so how about names I think DO go with Romilly

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Anouk
Bronwen
Cecily
Elowen
Gaia (though 'Gaia Romilly' is Emma Thompson's daughters name)
Hermione
Juniper
Kerensa
Keturah
Linnea
Margot
Olympia
Ophelia
Philippa
Sybil
Tempest
Zelda

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My favorites with Romilly, being Elowen, Juniper, Kerensa and Tempest.

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And these stood out as a "NO"

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Agnes
Arabella
Edith
Eleanora
Hedwig
Josephine
Katharine
Miriam
Nora
Penelope (but Peninnah would work)
Viola
Vivienne
Wilhelmina

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This message was edited 10/19/2014, 8:49 AM

I'd eliminate these as a sister to Romilly:
Agnes, Eugenia/Eugenie, Hebe, Harriet, Hedwig, Penelope, Thisbe, Sybil, Winifred --Too ugly/harsh/clunky.
Bronwen, Camille, Cecily, Cosima, Ianthe, Eulalia/Eulalie, Hermione, Linnea, Marina, Olympia --Too similar in sound.
Alexandrine, Arabella, Araminta, Eleanora, Georgiana --Too frilly.
Gwen, May, Nora --Too insubstantial.
Edith, Gaia, Hero, Katharine, Keturah, Milena, Miriam, Ophelia, Tempest, Wilhelmina, Wren, Zelda --Jarringly different styles next to Romilly.
Philomena, Guinevere --These push Romilly into pretentious/over-the-top territory.

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These sound great with Romilly:
Anastasia
Eliza
Florence
Frances
Helena
Isadora
Kerensa
Margot
Marguerite
Philippa
Vivienne

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I could take or leave the rest.

I'm commenting on how I think they match with Romilly ... whether I think most sisters named Romilly and ___ would feel like they both got equally good names ... not on whether I like the names.
For ones I say they work ok, that's for people called by the full names - assume it's qualified by whether any nicknames work together too.
Romilly is not a fave of mine but it's alright. I think it sounds pretty dominant, but also a little frilly and glamorous, and a sister should have a name that can compete with it on those fields.

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Adeline - eh, plain. Adelina maybe
Agnes - doesn't work. Agnes makes Romilly seem silly
Alexandrine - works ok
Anastasia - ok
Anouk - ok
Arabella - ok
Araminta - ok
Beatrice - eh ... Beatrice seems so much more buttoned up than Romilly.
Bronwen - ok. I don't mind the similar sound
Camille - I do sort of mind the similarity
Cecily - cute match.
Cosima - nah, too ugly.
Daphne - hmm ok but Daphne is much less serious than Romilly
Edith - ok
Eleanora - clash.
Eliza - clashy
Elowen - okay
Eugenia / Eugenie - odd
Eulalia / Eulalie - ok
Florence - ok
Frances - eh. glamor differential
Gaia - neat mix
Georgiana - outfrills Romilly too much
Guinevere - weird style clash

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I think most of them do go, (though some are much nicer than others). I also like the name Romilly.

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The ones that don't in my opinion are:

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Daphne, Gwen, Nora, Philomena, Sybil, Wilhelmina - These names all sound too dowdy and frumpy next to Romilly.

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Eulalia / Eulalie - two many Ls with Romilly.

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Hedwig, Thisbe - I'm not sure that these goes with anything so it's hard for me to judge objectively but I couldn't imagine someone pairing Romilly with either of these names.

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Milena - I don't dislike it, it just sounds very European next to Romilly which I think of as being quite British.

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Olympia, Tempest - Not totally sure why but they just have a different image for me than Romilly.

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I know someone who used Romilly. I think her other child is called Willow.

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