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Kayla is a nothing name, like last week's white bread and margarine, curling up at the edges.

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I've got a Gary nephew who is wonderful, but I've always mildly regretted that they didn't use Gareth. I like Gerry if it's (a) pronounced like Jerry and (b) short for Gerald.

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Desiree is a paradox. As a name, it is most things I dislike, but the only two Desiree people I know have turned that opinion on its head - one a good friend from our first year at school, and one a pleasant and spectacularly beautiful teenager whose mn is Bridget!

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As a sibset, therefore, it doesn't seem to hang together. Maybe the first two were named after people and for #3 they just went with what they liked.