my two main references are the suburb/beach in my country, and olympic swimmer bronte campbell. both are always pronounced as bron-tee and here in australia i’ve never heard it any different.
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Bron-tee because of the [name_f]Brontë[/name_f] sisters
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In the US Bron-tay is the more common pronunciation
This is an interesting article/background on the name…
So it sounds like the original surname of of the Bronte sisters father was something like brunty/pruntee however he wanted it to sound like the sicilian city which is pronounced more like Bron-tay so either pronunciation has some hold.
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Brohn-tee - at least the one I knew said it like that!
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[name_f]Bronte[/name_f] is a relatively common name here in Australia and it is always pronounced BRON-tee.
when referencing the [name_f]Brontë[/name_f] sisters however, I would say BRON-tay.
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I’m in the UK and would pronounce it as bron-tee. I’ve visited Haworth and the Parsonage Museum several times and this was how I heard everyone else say it too.
I also know someone called Bronté, and she pronounces it bron-tee.
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I’m American and I believe the technical pronunciation is bron-tee, but I have heard of a girl irl named [name_f]Bronte[/name_f] pronounced brun-TAY
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I’d pronounce it “BRON-tay”.
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“brohn-tay” 
i’m in the eastern us
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I think it’s pronounced Bron-tay, like the [name_f]Bronte[/name_f] sisters, whose name I believe was actually made up from another, less extravagant sounding name.
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