Bronte for a girl... opinions please

[Renaissance227]

What do you think of Bronte for a girl?

i would almost say it brunty, cos of the beach. i really do like it.

My daughter is called Brontë. I love it and everyone else always says what a beautiful name if is. We lived in Yorkshire for years never have ever heard anyone say Brontay. So glad it's not in the top 100.... And I hope never!!

It’s a great name! I’ve always been fortunate enough to have a unique name, not sure why people find it harsh or not feminine as it’s very cute (myself and others around me pronounce it with an E at the end, sounds even better with a smile!!)

Not to sounds smug but Ive found it to be a great name, brontosaurus doesn’t stick (brontski beat doesn’t either)

Never been picked on for it and it’s so unusual people ask where I’m from (Essex!! Haha)

Not sure why there are so many negative comments, I think it's a lovely name and reminds me of the Brontë sisters

Zombie thread from 2011

The surname wasn't originally Bronte and was from Brunty.
As novelists' surnames as first names go, it's better than Trollope, I suppose.

Absolutely love it! Beautiful name!
Nice to hear a different name other than the usual ones.

A bit dated now but ok. I imagin a Bronte to be about 20 now.

Love it! I think one of those rare feminine names that works for a child as well as an adult, strong and a bit mysterious.

No I don't like it very much. It was the name of the girl in the film Green Card. But I doubt many folk will remember it. Was quite good though if a bit daft.

Bronte was a bastardisation of Prunty. They had Irish roots but didn't want it known!

Well since the Op asked in 2011 she’s probably chosen a name now.

Bronte is one of my favourite names. I love it. Definitely for a girl though, I can't imagine it on a boy.

I have met one, she's early 20s now.

Im a bronte and 30 now. Was my great great grandfathers name. Great name, sooo many compliments. Lots of people say they have never heard and I hadn’t heard it before I started year 10 in which 3 other Bronte’s in my school, one in my year, one in the year above and one in the year below aha. Never met another Bronte again. Kids never teased brontosaurus and just found it fun because they liked dinosaurs.
In grade 6 though kids got creative… brontosaurus(SawUS)naked lol and my personal favourite brontesoreASS ahaha.
I honestly found it so creative and hilarious I never minded plus it didn’t hang around for high school thank god ahah I got bronzy or b a lot which I liked.
All Americans and Canadians pronounce it brontay which I also hated and corrected.

Oh, lord, I'm having flashbacks -- I remember reading this thread when it was originally posted, because I had just joined Mn that day, having just discovered I was pregnant, and was shying away from the Pregnancy and Childbirth boards because there was a lot of terrifying discussion of perineal massage.

I realise that little Brontë is 11 or 12 now, but the Brontës pronounced their name Brontay, because Patrick was reinventing his 'low' Northern Irish surname at Cambridge, most probably as a reference to his revered Nelson being made Duke of Brontë by the King of Naples.

Fact fans - Brontë, which is in Sicily, is twinned with Drogheda, a fact that never ceases to amuse me.

I would like to pretend to have named the baby I was carrying when I first read this post Tennyson or Trollope or Bysshe, but I didn't.