Hello ladies, thanks for all your feedback on the Ella/Jessica question... very helpful. I still love both names but am a bit of a rebel at heart and kinda want to find something a bit 'less popular'. We still have some other ideas, so we'll see what we settle on in 18ish weeks time!

So... next question! Why did you give your child a middle name? Or if you didn't, why did you choose not to?

I really like the idea of a middle name but hubby is really against it. He hates his middle name (it's William which I think is lovely but it is associated with his grandfather who was a pretty nasty piece of work). He doesn't really see what the point of the middle name is, since nobody ever uses it in day-to-day interractions. And I'm struggling to come up with a counter-argument other than that I 'just like the idea' (which I accept is pretty lame!) and that it sounds nice(!!).

Thoughts? TIA