Calling a person's Last Names

In my country usually call a person with the first name. It is not usual to call somebody with the last name. for example somebody name is tommy kurniawan. we call him tommy or Mr. tommy. it is a habit in my country..

hi nykel88 oh my I didnt really look at your profile I guess I was thinking you were Ms. Wong okay but if I knew your first name I would call you by it. I got called by my last name when I worked in the library by this wonderful blunt friend of mine Adrian who I loved dearly, but nobody else ever called me hatley just Patsie, my first name. but Adrian was one of a kind,outspoken, bluff b ut so kind and of all p eople she had to go and get lung cancer which killed her in two months.I still miss her though I have been retired for ages and she has been gone for ages too.Here on mylot a lot of people assumed I was a guy because I guess Hatley sounded male but I am very much female.

Some schools and colleges are like that, and I know in many countries people are called by their last name or in certain countries "family names". Example, if your last name is Martinez, and you go to a college such as Harvard or Yale, you will most likely be called by your last name or family name, which is Martinez. At my college and at my high school, it was like this at times. Now, I cannot and will not give out my last name (if I did tell some of you guys my last name, you all might freak out about it, so that is why I won't tell anyone what it is).

I like your name, so probably if we're classmates I would call you Nykel coz it sounds so unique. Maybe it's difficult for them to pronounce your name? Or they just have been accustomed to it that it's not easy to change anymore. In school before, we often address each other by last names too. However, I couldn't remember exactly why. :)

I guess you could ask them nicely to just call you by your first name. i do know some people that have the same first name and it would just be easier to call them by their last name. Good thing, I don't have anybody that calls me by my last name. Its short and it rhymes with a lot of bad words. lol.

My last name is like yours, which is "Wang". But I never heard anyone calling me by that, even my teachers are calling me on first name basis plus the "Mr." I can't say if there is a universal way of calling names, but in most cases calling you by first name is the norm, and we feel comfortable by that. If the ones that are calling your last name are not making fun out of your name, then I think is alright to let them, maybe is easier for them to say, or is better for them to remember as you could be the only "Wong" in your class. Since they know your face, other simliar names in campus won' t be a issue. Perhaps they think your name is different, and they don't encounter that many Asian people in their area, so they tend to make nick names out of yours. It won't be a bad thing as long as they don't discriminate against your racial background, if they do then you should take action to protect your right.

When I was still studying, teachers would call me by my last name which isn't surprising as they also did that to all the students that they called, be it for recitations or just to call their attention. Among classmates, they would call me with my nickname(s) they they eventually got to use. They would either use my nickname that I even use at home, perhaps I told them to call me as when I got acquainted with them, or that other nickname that they have given to my family name. No worries about any of those names, didn't really confused me anyway. However, if their nicknaming (is there even a word like that?) sounds like its for ridiculing me, I would really complain and ask them to stop it before they could turn it into a habit..

It's the Wong thing to do? :-) Bad Dawn... Well seriously, I have always believed that people should respect what YOU want to be called. They may forget occasionally, but they don't get to decide what you want to be called. Not cool.

I think that sometimes it all depends on the last name. I mean to say that regardless of whether it's easier to prounce, or people just forget the person's first name, some last name's are just weird when called to get the attention of someone. My last name is very odd indeed to be called out, people would be wondering what the person was talking about?...

may be hard mentioning your name, so your friend called with the last or middle name. My friends never use the word as last name because confused chop the letters. Only certain people are carelessly cut my last name.

Yes i have also called to my mostly friends by their last name.. and now it in our habit because we calling each others lat name.. i think.. it's a not good way to calling others last name.. because.. suppose.. if 2 persons have same their last name.. then it is a confusing whose calling by you.. so some time it is a way of confusions.. have a nice day and keep mylotting always..

Hehe my last name rhymes with yours. A good majority of my friends call me by my last name and only like two call me Mr. I don't mind it at all, I like my nickname. I respond to both my first and last name so It doesn't really matter to me. I have no idea why people can't call us by our first names unless it's quicker or shorter than our first.