Opinions on Brontë

[Nearlywed2038]

Hello mumsnet!!

Currently expecting my first daughter, after 2 boys (Ralph and Henry).

Both my fiancé and I absolutely love literature and like the name Bronte, as a middle name for baby girl but, is it tacky?? 🙈

I do really love the name and it pays a nice homage to one of my favourite writers, but I can’t help but feel it’s a dog name..

Opinions/first names to go with it, thanks everyone :)

I personally don’t like it but as it’s a middle name it would be ok

I really like it for a middle name, think it's quite cool! It would be a strange first name though.

Sorry, it just makes me think of Brontosaurus.

Interesting you say you think of it as a dogs name. A former workplace of mine sponsored 2 guide dogs and one was named Brontë after the building we worked in so my mind jumped straight to that.

I know someone with this name. She's lovely but I think the name sounds a bit pretentious and 'trying too hard' to be honest.

Wrong author! Darcy was a character from Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen not one of the Brontë sisters

I love Brontë. The only one I've met was super posh. Not tacky at all.

I used to know a Brontë. Her mum was an English teacher but she pronounced it Bronty

I'm not a fan.

I'd just go with Charlotte or Emily or the first name of a favourite character from literature

Naff & tacky, imo.

I know a dog called Brontë.
Wasn't even their real name..Patrick had anglicised a more Irish name. Prunty/Brunty/Brontë.
Not a fan personally.

Georgina is nice!

Brontë is okay as a middle name imo.

I would definitely keep the umlaut. Unless you're prepared for Brunt/Brunty...

Ralph, Henry and ..
Bronte Georgina
Jane Charlotte
Mary Charlotte

Unusual for a son..

Katrinawaves doh ! I serves me right for skim reading. To make it even more embarrassing I have only just visited the parsonage last weekend. Couldn't really get more different authors from Austen's frothy, witty comedies /dramas of manners and social climbing and the Brontes dark gothic misery fests.

Georgiana is still a great name though 😀

They were the Pruntys ;) They had notions.

I know a Brontë. She’s an adult now but I’ve known her all her life. She loves her name. I’ve never thought it sounds tacky, she’s a professional and has professional parents.

I love it.

I think it’s lovely as a middle name. Very different (in a good way)!

Sister?

I love it, adult children here but if I could I would use it.

I really like Brontë, I don’t know why it’s tacky. Maybe if you’d never read a book in your life it’d be a bit ludicrous but not the case if it’s a passion. Don’t like Georgina, and if it’s Jane Eyre’s cousin you’re thinking of, Georgiana Reed, I just think about her hoarding and lying and trading on her blonde-and-dimpled appearance to get away with being a little wretch. Possibly overthinking it though.

What about Adela, after Rochester’s little French ward? To go with Brontë as a middle name, hard to know what would work without a surname but Bethanne Brontë has a certain quiet dignity to it.

It always makes me think of Bronx raspberry.

I agree either the suggestion of using a name of one of the Brontes instead - choose your favourite Bronte sister.

Never read a book in your life? Interesting take.

Brontë just feels like a pretentious, try hard name, as a PP said. Like you’ve tried to think of an ‘intellectual’ name, so have thought of a clever book and this is the rather naff result. Just give your child a normal name.

Is this post aimed at me?

I have read a lot of books in my life including a lot of books by the Brontë sisters, I didn’t realise I had spelt Georgiana wrong and when I did I couldn’t be bothered to change it, if this is what you mean by haven’t read a book.

Personally I don’t like ‘normal’ names as I like my children to be unique hence why my sons have uncommon names.

I wouldn't say it was tacky but it's really try hard and not even a proper name.

No one will be interested if its a middle name though so call her what you want. FFS not Georgina though as she was a cow bag.

Catherine? Heathcliffella?

We live round t'corner from Howarth and I adore all things Bronte and often flail about on the moor. Would love to have called my dds Charlotte or Emily but they're both super common. Plus the kids would probably have been malnourished midgets who spent all their time writing depressing books before dying of consumption.