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I knew a Wendy and Shirley sibset once, and it worked surprisingly well. Both names were firmly out of date, so the parents obviously had strong family reasons for using them, or else they just really, really liked them. But the girls they belonged to were excellent kids and that made the names work.

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That said, I rather like Shirley, don't enjoy Wendy and find Audrey thoroughly unpleasant. But that's just me.

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If you choose Julia, it's highly likely she'd end up as Julie, which might mean you'd prefer your favourite name with a similar sound. Same with Katherine, which could well be Kathy, Katie or even Kitty. And then there's Sylvie ... which seems to leave you with a choice of Edith or Fiona. Of the two, I prefer Fiona in general but with Wendy I'd like Edith better.

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