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[sian-y.livejournal.com]

What do you guys think of the name Bronte for a girl?
I like it but i'm not sure I'd actually use it.

Comments

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

I adore it. Absolutely love it. I'd seriously consider using it.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Maybe as a middle, but why not use one of the sisters' actual names?

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

I don't like it at all.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I've always loved it, but as brontë

[wolff.livejournal.com]

I love it!

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i don't like it. wouldn't use it.

doesn't get more pretentious sounding, imo.

[bookishvegan.livejournal.com]

I like it.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I've never read a book by any of them, and it sounds slightly pretentious.

[hwar.livejournal.com]

That's how I feel about it too. It's a little trying-too-hard-to-be-literary for me (and I am very literary). But I named my daughter Jane, not Austen. ;)

[matika88.livejournal.com]

Middle name perhaps.

[depeche810.livejournal.com]

don't like it....I think of Bronte-saurus, like the dinosaur.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Horrible sound with nice association. Just... horrible, horrible sound.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I mean. I'm considering Curie as a middle name (for a girl), but NEVER as a first name.

[frost.livejournal.com]

I don't like it in general.

[corielcries.livejournal.com]

I like it. Considered using it as a middle, still might!

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I agree! Granted, Anne, Emily and Charlotte are all pretty plain and do not give off the immediate "literary!" signal, but they're nicer than Bronte, which sounds a little harsh, I think.

If you're going purely for the sound, then sure...although it still seems a little pretentious to me.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Bronte just sounds like Brontosaurus, and you don't want a baby to be scientifically innaccurate!

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

like charlotte bronte?

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! This comment = WIN.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Eww. Pretentious, doesn't sound very feminine at all. Sorry.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings about it. I kind of like it in theory whenever I hear someone mention it, but I don't know about in practice, and I can see where some people think it sounds pretentious.