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I do not like Pauline, it sounds too masculine. Paul or Paulus is much prettier.

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Posy is nice.

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Petrova - This is weird using surname like a birth name. In Slovak translate they called Petra.

Petrova as a first name is like nails on a chalkboard. We never use surnames as first names in Russia.
Pauline and Posy seem nice next to it.

Pauline is the least worst. Posy is unthinkable, and Petrova is surely a patronymic?

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As a set, I'd have started with Paula rather than Pauline - don't like two-syllable -een names in general, but keeping the shipwreck theme going - and then gone on to Penelope, nn Penny, and Philippa, nn Pippa.

I like Petrova. Posy is okay. I don’t like Pauline.

Pauline: Well, it's the best of a bad lot. At least someone seems to have given her name some real thought.

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Petrova: Any real Russian would laugh at their idea of a Russian first name. Petrova actually sounds like a Russian oil company, and paired with the last name Fossil, even more so.

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Posy: Fossilized flowers? They should have changed that name as soon as they got her.

Petrova is dumb because it's a last name.

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I love Pauline and like Posy.

I really like Petrova. I know it might be considered a patronym, but that doesn't seem inherantly worse than names like Desmond, which is derived from a surname.

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Paulina is a bit prettier than Pauline, but both are nice.

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Posy is the worst name of the bunch. It sounds childish and insubstantial compared to the other names. It also makes me think of a plague posy and by extension death. If I was going to name the twins in the shining, I would probably call one of them Posy.

Pauline is OK, I prefer Petra to Petrova. I dont like siblings with the same initials