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Bronte, like the Yorkshire authors, seems to be Bron-Tay and it's what I'd expect people to guess. I don't enjoy lnfns at the best of times, and this particular ln was pretty well invented by the family's father, as an improvement on Prunty which was his birth ln. So I'd never expect to see it IRL. Plus, it would shorten to Bron in a split second, so one might as well use Bronwen in the first place, if you're making it fem. I'd rather name anyone after Charlotte, Emily and Anne rather than Branwell and their name-synthesising father; but then I'd use one or two of those names, in my case, Emily Anne or Anne Emily.

I think it's ugly either way. Big, loud bellowing dinosaur. Overrated, wordy, boring English authors who have like a cult following among a certain type of young woman who writes fanfic about the characters and act like Mr. Darcy is real.

I say Bronte as bron-TAY. Brontë as bron-TEE.

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Anyways, I like the name and the associations with the writers. Very attractive and cool in my opinion.

I've always heard Brontë, as in Emily, Charlotte, or Anne, pronounced BRON-tee (seeing as it comes from Brunty) even though my instinct was to go with BRON-tay before I heard it. It's one of the very few LN FNs I like. Certainly cooker than Harper. It feels gender neutral, though preferable on girls, as Bramwell was eclipsed by his sisters. I only like it with the accent mark, though. Bronte looks very plain.

Generally hate surnames as given names, although there are a few exception, this one is not, it looks awful and sounds dreadful.

I like it. I would pronounce it as bron-TAY.

It's not that out there. I had a coworker named Bronte "bron-tay"; no one had difficulty with it.

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It reminds me of names like Chanté and Brittney but comes across as more fun. I also associate it with Rhiannon, Dylan, Dante.

This message was edited 8/20/2022, 4:12 PM

I used to absolutely hate it because I thought it was just a surname. But it is coincidentally a name from Greek mythology:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrape_and_Bronte

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Now I kind of like it. I pronounce it bron-tay.