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Bronte for a girl... opinions please

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Renaissance227 · 08/06/2011 14:16

What do you think of Bronte for a girl?

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 14:16

My DP's sister is called Shelley!

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 14:16

I realise where it came from just didn't think it made sense. Sorry! Smile

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OTheHugeManatee · 09/06/2011 14:15

If you're dead set on Victorian classics there's always Shelley?

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 14:15

That's a pity Lonnie! What did you go for instead?

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SuePurblybilt · 09/06/2011 14:14

It was a joke, someone mentioned that Bronte was like Wordsworth (which I don't think it is) , someone else mentioned liking Dante and Byron.
^ Up there^. Was commenting on the whole thread, not just your choices.Smile

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 14:12

"I think Dante and Byron are wanky, sorry. Wordsworth off the scale" I said I liked Dante and Byron, not that I was using them AND who said anything about Wordsworth?!
Glad you like Bronte. Thanks! Smile

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Lonnie · 09/06/2011 14:10

I love it I always have I think it is just so beautiful and I SO wanted it for my dd's but dh wouldnt hear of it Sad

ninedragons · 09/06/2011 14:09

Russell Crowe's DS2 is called Tennyson, which makes me think he thought I'll see your Bronte and raise you TENNYSON.

iklboo · 09/06/2011 14:08

I know a Bronte - she's 15 now, I think. Lovely girl. She did get Brontosaurus at school though.

SuePurblybilt · 09/06/2011 14:06

I like it (but I think Dante and Byron are wanky, sorry. Wordsworth off the scale Grin). I find the opposite to MrsVWoolf,I would expect to hate it but I don't.
Unless you call siblings Shelley, Keats and Austen. That would be wanky.

BerylOfLaughs · 09/06/2011 14:06

Perfectly nice name.

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 14:03

Not exactly hard to pronounce AND I quite like Dante and Byron too! Smile

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MrsvWoolf · 09/06/2011 13:47

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GwendolineMaryLacey · 09/06/2011 09:58

I don't mind it but it makes me think of Andie MacDowell and that puts me off. Although I then think of Gerard Depardieu and that cheers me up again :o

manchurian · 09/06/2011 09:54

I don't think it sounds poncy and like you are trying to sound literary at all.

It's not my favourite name but I have a met a few Brontes and it's a perfectly nice name.

I think it would need to go with your surname though...something like Bronte Smith would sound a bit like you were trying too hard.

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 09:45

Thank you mrsravelstein Smile

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mrsravelstein · 09/06/2011 09:41

i've never heard it before (other than the obvious as surname!) and i LOVE it, think it's pretty but strong, unusual but not weird.

BelleEnd · 09/06/2011 09:40

I do if a name is so very linked with one particular person or family, as Bronte is. I love the name, I love the Brontes, but it would feel, to me, a bit like calling my child Wordsworth or Ptolemy...
AS I say though, it's a nice name, and if you like it, go for it! :)

midoriway · 09/06/2011 09:30

I think it is a sweet name. I'm Australian so maybe kiteflying and schplappo have a point.

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 09:27

BelleEnd - so do you think that about all people who use literary or writer's names just because they like them?
I don't think that knowing about the Brontes makes a person well-read or cultured! Grin

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kiteflying · 09/06/2011 09:16

Yes, I know boys are called Devon, and actually, like Bronte, I think it is a nice sounding name as long as it doesn't make you think of the place. I say go for it. I only mentioned it was popular here in Oz because I thought other posters were suggesting it was too out there and it really isn't. It is a very girly girl name here.

BelleEnd · 09/06/2011 08:47

I like it but I think it makes you sound as if you want to point out how cultured and well-read you are IYKWIM. It tries a bit too hard.

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Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 08:42

Thank you for your opinions, nice and nasty.
Will be using it anyway, but glad to hear what you thought.

P.S. People do call boys and girls Devon!

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kiteflying · 09/06/2011 07:14

I live in Australia and have met more than one pre-schooler (girls) called Bronte, so it does seem to be a popular name here. It does remind me of the beach by the same name so I would not use it (to me it would be like calling a boy Devon or Cornwall) but it does sound feminine to me.

pooka · 09/06/2011 06:40

Brontesaurus.