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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
Gwen - odd but ok. Gwendolen better
Harriet - interesting contrast, but glamor differential too high to be fair.
Hebe - way too ugly.
Hedwig - worse!
Helena - ok
Hermione - neat mix
Hero - no
Ianthe - neat mix
Isadora (it's spelled Isidora. "Isadora" is like "Romally" ;-P) - ok
Josephine - too buttoned
Juniper - ok
Juno - ok
Katharine - no, too boring
Kerensa - good
Keturah - clashy
Linnéa - ok
Margot - ok
Marguerite - barely ok
Marina - ok
May - big glamor differential
Milena - ok
Miriam - clash
Nora - no. Romilly makes Nora seem weak.
Olympia - I like Olympia but this is too unequal
Ophelia - see Olympia
Penelope - clash
Philippa - ok
Philomena - not liking the similar sound, it makes them sound clunky
Sybil - ok... ish. maybe too plain
Tempest - ok
Thisbe - neat
Viola - eh... maybe.
Vivienne - ok
Wilhelmina - too staid
Winifred - too ugly
Wren - hm. ok. interesting mix
Zelda - nope

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- mirfak