Opinions on the name Brontë please

[RedRobyn2021]

Struggling to find a baby name we love except this one

Thoughts please

No I will be honest. It's extremely chavvy.

This is my name. I absolutely hated it as a shy child and having to correct how my teacher pronounced it on the register each year (bront-ee not bront-ay).

Get asked about the Bronte sisters all the time. My mum actually named me after the film Green Card but people do assume she is a fan of the books.

I get a lot of compliments on it when meeting people but it is annoying having to constantly correct people, spell it out on the phone, most people mispronounce it and sometimes I just give up and let people call me Brontay to avoid the hassle.

However I have enjoyed having an unusual name in adulthood and it was great not being one of a million Jessica's and Sophie's growing up.

Curiously pretentious and chavvy in one sweep….. sorry, you asked

I love it.

What about Bronwyn if you want that sound but an established first name

I think part of the reason I don't like Bronte as a name is that it makes me think of Charles Bronson, the violent prisoner.

But will your daughter think it's a nice name. Anything out there would (in my opinion) be better used as a middle name.

Personally, it's a name I dislike.

If I had had a DD as a teen this would have been on my list of names! And I am not a fan of surnames as first names!
However.... the link to the authors is such that it really doesn't make sense to name your child this if you are not a fan as people will always assume you have named the child after them / one of them!

I love it! Although I would pronounce it (as did the 1 I knew) Bron-tay rather than Bron-tee, so you may have to correct people on pronounciation.

If you like it go for it - for every PP commenting how Charlotte/Emily/Anne are much nicer names, there will be someone who prefers Bronte! For whats its worth, I hate Charlotte/Emily/Anne type names & think Bronte is much nicer!

DD has a friend called Bronte. She's Australian and funnily enough lots of other people, when I mention the name, immediately ask if she's Australian! No one has made the author connection.
I like it, it really suits her. I'd say go for it but drop the umlaut. It's not necessary. DD has a name which in some cultures has an umlaut but we left it off. It's a bugger for filling in electronic forms!

Why do people keep suggesting this when it's already been said several times on the thread that the spelling is Bronwen for a girl! WYN is a male version.

To explain some of the "it's not an umlaut!" comments.

The two-dots-above-a-vowel can be used in German to indicate a missing letter 'e'. "Schoen" (beautiful) is normally written "Schön." That's called an umlaut.

The two-dots-above-a-vowel can be used in other European languages to indicate that the vowel should be pronounced. It's not silent, nor is it merged into the vowel next to it (a dipthong). "Naïve" is sometimes written like that as a guide to pronunciation, or it's sometimes used in names like Zoë or Chloë, or indeed Brontë. That's called a diaeresis.

I've only ever seen the WYN version and only for a girl. Learn something new every day! 😊

The dots will cause problems online as some forms won't accept the dots and then other forms won't recognise your child as the dots are not there

Might have been mentioned already but a Brontë almost won the first series of Gladiators reboot. She is a firefighter, not many firefighting Brontes I bet. Thought it was an unusual but pretty name.

I really like it! Also a fan of Brodie (Miss Jean.)

Ooh Brodie! Love it.

Love it

Brodie is a boy’s name meaning ‘brother’

Sorry not keen. I think Brontosaurus.

I think it was O'Prunty originally.. Bronte is a place name given to the Duke of Wellington as a reward for all the killing. Patrick admired him so changed his name when he registered at Cambridge.

I dunno... I know an adult with the nickname Bunty. She works in fashion and she's pretty cool. I also love Bunny, for boys and girls. A bit old fashioned too, no doubt. But there you go! I'd call a little girl Bunny or Bunty over Brontë any day. (As a nickname, not birth cert name.)

@Pocketfullofdogtreats , User-submitted name Bunty - Behind the Name
might be of interest.