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Bronte Lily, Bronte Catherine, Bronte Elizabeth, Bronte Beatrix, Bronte Veronica, Bronte Arabella or Bronte Heather?

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Jadamba · 01/12/2016 18:59

Bronte Lily, Catherine, Elizabeth/Elisabeth, Beatrix, Veronica, June, Arabella or Heather?
We've decided on the very lovely Bronte for her name. Will be adding umlaut on birth certificate but she can drop it if she wants as I'm sure it will be anyway.
Choose one and why please. Smile

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Soubriquet · 02/12/2016 13:09

And that comment to vixx was a personal attack Hmm

Soubriquet · 02/12/2016 13:08

OP what about giving a child their own name and NOT after someone you personally admire?

Gruffalosfriend · 02/12/2016 08:33

I vote Brontë Rose!

Why are so many posters so rude and comment negatively on a name the op has already chosen? Do you do this in real life too?

AllThePrettySeahorses · 02/12/2016 07:41

Bronte Beatrix is lovely.

It reminds of an amazingly talented musical star I saw in Shrek called Bronte Barbe. So yeah, great name.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 02/12/2016 07:28

Educated people are not put off by it

Hmm
HOHOHOvariesBeforeBrovaries · 02/12/2016 07:19

Love Bronte Lily.

Bronte is a beautiful name!

UntilTheCowsComeHome · 02/12/2016 00:29

I love the name Bronte.

Bronte Elizabeth is the name of my totally fictional daughter.

cheweduprope · 01/12/2016 23:31

Just wanted to say that although we have very different tastes in names, I think the fact that your kids all have "different" names and your reasons for choosing them is really cool. Bronte definitely fits in with the theme, and as a "sibset" I think it's an awesome set of names. Much more interesting than Harry, Olivia and William. Xmas Smile

MollyHuaCha · 01/12/2016 23:17

OP, how are you pronouncing Bronte? Is it Bron-tee or Bron-tay or something different?

SarcasmMode · 01/12/2016 23:03

As you've mixed your older DC with those inspire you is there any other author/inspiration who has a surname that's workable as a middle name?

Christie if you liked Agatha Christie for example or Plath if a Sylvia Plath fan.

I think the negative connotations are the similarity sound wise to Monty. I actually quite like Monty too - both names I thought a bit meh then really grow on me. Similar to Blair.

A lot of MNetters dislike surname type names.

twinjocks · 01/12/2016 22:53

I like Bronte Arabella - just a nice flow (and btw, I think Bronte is a lovely name)

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Eolian · 01/12/2016 22:41

Hmm apparently a diaeresis can also be placed over a lone vowel to show it's not silent, like in Brontë. Fair enoufh9. It's definitely not an umlaut though.

Shallishanti · 01/12/2016 22:39

you can't put an umlaut over an e !

BernadetteMatthews · 01/12/2016 22:37

Grant Mitchell? Oh man you should have called this one Peggy.

Eolian · 01/12/2016 22:37

They aren't the same thing. They look the same but they do different things. A diaeresis shows that a vowel is pronounced separately from the vowel next to it (like in Zoë). An umlaut changes the sound of a vowel (as it does in German). I don't see why either is needed on Bronte actually, as it doesn't do either of those things.

Vixxfacee · 01/12/2016 22:34

The more children you have the worse the names are getting.

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Jadamba · 01/12/2016 22:31

Shallishanti they are the same thing.

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Shallishanti · 01/12/2016 22:29

it's not an umlaut its a diaeresis

sj257 · 01/12/2016 22:25

I don't think any of those middle names sound right, I think it needs to be one syllable, Jane or Rose?

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Jadamba · 01/12/2016 22:19

Bronte Rose is very pretty! Thanks for the positive feedback all.
Bronte we chose for the literary connection yes. Also big sister is Harper.

We have 15y old twins, Cole Andrew & Harper Allison, named after Nat King Cole & Harper Lee. We were teen parents but are married and very much together. We also have a 5yr old Louis Dominic named for Louis Armstrong & 3yr old Grant Brendan, named for Grant Mitchell, a sadly deceased fantastic broadway actor.

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enchantmentandlove · 01/12/2016 22:17

I think Arabella goes the nicest Smile

Rose would also sound good

marl · 01/12/2016 21:52

Lily. Definitely not Catherine or Heather as it then sounds like you're obsessed with 'Wuthering Heights' and not thinking of an individual child with her own identity. I thought the others were a bit too much of a mouthful myself

Soubriquet · 01/12/2016 21:44

What about Bronwyn instead of Bronte?

Bronte sounds like a boys name

Blaze6 · 01/12/2016 21:29

I actually really like the name bronte but none of those middle names go apart from arabella! I wouldn't use a name beginning with b as he middle name it sounds a bit strange!