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I like it too. My mother had a friend, long deceased, who was Zoe Mabel - sounds as if she was born last week. And I knew three sisters at school who were, I think, Stephanie Leigh, Eileen Mabel and Mabel Leigh, who went by Leigh. It could have been Stephanie Mabel and Eileen Leigh, but you get the point. Unless the parents were really strange, the mns must surely have been family names; Mabel and Leigh don't go well together to my ears, but I like them both well enough.