Opinions on the name Brontë please

[RedRobyn2021]

Struggling to find a baby name we love except this one

Thoughts please

It's very 'oh aren't we ever so literary in our house'.

It's a lovely name, it reminds me of Andie MacDowell in Green Card.

I know a Brontë in her 30s. Beautiful name!

I strongly dislike it. There's something very harsh about it.

I really like it

I really like it pronounced bront-ay but don’t like bront-ee.

Bron-tee makes no sense. It isn't spelled like that so there's no reason to pronounce it like that.

Why? There are plenty of first names and surnames that cross over.
Thomas
Russell
Lindsey
Michael
Lynn
David
Ryan
George etc

Plenty of people are called Brontë already anyway. It’s your opinion (which is fine) not a rule which you seem to present it as.

Yes!! I’ve been racking my brain trying to think where I’d heard it before! But I knew it was on someone I’d disliked immensely…

I love it! Go for it!

Love it, but very used to it ( Australian) We pronounce it Bron-tee. Been around for decades. No accent and nobody would find it at all unusual. Obviously the Bronte sisters are an association but the first would be ( oh, that's my SIL's name or that swimmers name or something like that).

How about

Bronwyn

Bryony

Instead

@RedRobyn2021 absolutely LOVE it!!!!!

If you love it, use it.

For me there’s nothing wrong with it in itself. The only reason I don’t like it is the associations:

I’m personally not keen on naming after an author. That’s how I would hear it.

It reminds me of Green Card - I liked the film but I find Andie MacDowell annoying (really because I find all the characters in Four Weddings annoying) … and then I think of Gerard Depardieu too, who has not turned out well.

It reminds me of a scene in Career Girls (‘Ms Brontë, Ms Brontë …’) and that hurts my heart a bit because I wished I was Katrin Cartlidge and she died much too young.

But my goodness what a ridiculous baggage of associations! Based mainly on films!

So use the name you love and create your own associations.

I’m putting in my vote for Agnes Grey as the Brontë novel you read on maternity leave by the way. And it’s short.

I knew a few Brontës growing up, not one was called brontosaurus. I always loved the name, i knew the name before i knew the authors as a child, and its also what prompted me to read their books.

its on my “list” too, so maybe biased - but go for it!

No, it’s a surname.

Love

I knew one who was lovely but went by Tee, she said it helped people say it properly as most people said her name Bron-tay, like the authors, when they saw it written down.

I agree - ‘bront’ isn’t a very feminine sound.

Bryony, Brónagh, Brenna, Bruna… similar alternatives.

YABU to have read nothing by the Brontes, but I think the name is pretty. I wouldn't use the umlaut though.

It's a girls name they way so should be spelt Bronwen as 'wyn' is a male version

To me it sounds like the name of someone who writes fluffy lifestyle pieces for the Telegraph. #curmudgeon

Also, there is a chance she will be mocked mercilessly over the "Bronte-saurus" thing, especially if she is even remotely overweight.

But Bronwyn isn't a male name. just a bad spelling of a nice name

(Daisypod probably knew that)

Nah, people who write fluff for the telegraph are too posh to be called Brontë, it is a Chardonnay type name.

They're not posh, they're privileged.