[Opinions] did you ever read "Compromising Positions?"
By Susan Isaacs? It's a very funny mystery making fun of rich people on Long Island. The main character is Judith Singer and she appears in another mystery written and set twenty years later. Anyway, one of her group of friends, a friend she and the other women don't actually like all that much, is Mary Alice, who they call Malice.
It's mentioned more than once that Malice is one of four sisters, all of them named Mary. Near as I can remember it's Mary Alice, Mary Jean, Mary Ellen and I think Mary Kate or Mary Catherine. Malice is the only one we actually see in the book, and she is flaky and dim and hyper-Catholic, which I suppose is why there's four Marys in her family.
I know a Filipino family with four daughters, all of them named Maria, but they all go by their middle names and somehow it seems much less silly that way. Ramona, Teresa, Andrea and I think the other one is Carmen or Carmela.
I think, therefore I judge.