How would you pronounce Brontë?

[Bronteeorbrontay]

Just that really. If you met a Brontë or Bronte, how would you automatically pronounce it?
Is it awful?
I quite like it. I always assumed it was Brontay but online I keep finding people are pronouncing it Brontee. I actually quite like both but I'd want to pick the one that is most commonly used.
We are not set on this name, but I've already got three kids and really struggling to find a name I don't associate with another child we know or a member of our huge family!

Bron-tay

Brontay

Bron-tay.

It’s Bron-Tay

Brontay

Technically the Italian place name Bronte (source of the name of Nelson's dukedom) is pronounced BRON-teh, e as in bet or pet or met. I suspect Nelson's use of both Bronté and Brontë were simply to indicate that the e is voiced (to avoid native English speakers defaulting to BRONT) and not to specify a tay or tee ending, especially as both were seemingly used interchangeably.

Bron -teh (ie emphasis on first syllable and shorter é, not an elongated -ay on the second syllable)

Yes, I always say Emily Bron…tee. Maybe it’s a north-south thing. I always say sc…own, not sc…on for scone.

Brontë is pronounced Brontay

Bronte is pronounced Brontee

Brontee

That’s absolute rubbish!

Brontee.

bron tea

I think i say Bron-tey

Definitely bron-tay

Or maybe bron-tea

Brontay
The two dots are phonetic.

wow. I say brontay and cloay and have never in my life heard anybody say Cloee (I'm in Scotland so not sure if you really mean ee the way i'd say ee - for me it rhymes with tea)

Automatically…Bron-tee. Realistically, I’d just ask the parents how they wanted it to be pronounced 🤷‍♀️

As an aside (not directing this at the OP) I wish parents who choose unusual names would be upfront about pronunciation and not get cross when people get it wrong. No-one wants to get it wrong after all.

Quick google suggests I’ve been saying it wrong all my life and it should be bron-tee!! And I’m an English lit grad 🤣

It's a bit risky using it if there is a surge in popularity due to the Wuthering Heights film and you're one of many who named their 2026 born child Bronte.

Yes , iirc the grandparents had a ' mixed marriage '. Probably not popular in Nonconformist Yorkshire back then. Branwell got some abuse about it. I've always said it Bronty.

I know one and everyone refers to her as Brontee.

I love me a bit of Charlotte and Emily (considered both for my girls!) so go to Haworth a bit and think most locals pronounce it Brontee but haven't taken a poll.

I don't like it though, sorry. As pp said pretentious but down-market at the same time. It's one of those you'll have to be spelling for everyone all your life. Also judging from this thread if you're worried about it's pronounced there will always be someone saying it wrong and will be annoying!!

And as a parting thought, she'll get Brontee-saurus a lot. Just sayin'.....

Patrick Brontë enrolled at Cambridge as Patrick Branty - which if you think of his Irish accent would make it "Bran-tay".

brontay but thinking about it those two dots don’t mean anything jn the English language so no idea how it should be pronounced, which could in turn be different to how the famous family said it