Bronte for a girl... opinions please

[Renaissance227]

What do you think of Bronte for a girl?

Thank you mrsravelstein

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.

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

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

Perfectly nice name.

I like it (but I think Dante and Byron are wanky, sorry. Wordsworth off the scale ). 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.

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

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

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

"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!

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.

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

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

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

My DP's sister is called Shelley!

. Seriously? You post that actually you quite like Dante and Byron too - and yes I realise that doesn't mean you were actually considering them for your baby - , I post just after saying sorry, I don't like those names but I do like your actual choice. I don't get what's unclear or how it has made you chippy.
Nevermind. Good luck with whatever you decide (still like Bronte ).

SuePurblybilt - Whatever floats your boat!
Didn't realise I was 'chippy'(?) with you... sorry!

How else would you pronounce it apart from Brontee?

Brontay?

Never heard anyone say it like that! I think we'll stick with the only pronunciation I know!

That's how my English teachers said it. If it doesn't bother you, go for it- Both are pretty sounds.

I don't like it, sorry.

I especially don't like it pronounced Brontee. I have never heard that pronunciation, only ever Brontay.

Well I've never ever heard anyone pronounce Bronte with an "ay" sound at the end unless they are American. That's why the original has an umlaut above the e.
Anyway, it's fair enough that you don't like it. Not sure why you have an opinion on how it's pronounced even though you don't like it, but nevermind.
Thank you anyway Guildenstern. What do you think to Rosencrantz?