Do you ever call somebody by their Last name?

[Narcissus 354]

All the time. I call my girlfriend by her last name and sometimes my roommate too, even though (the latter) corrects me all the time when I do that, so I abbreviate her first name instead.   

[Lord Valtasar 12,690]

nowadays no,but i called most of the professors at my university by their last names

[Dreambiscuit 9,787]

I sometimes call a friend of mine by her last name but that's the exception to the rule. Otherwise it seems too impersonal. I often add Mr. or Mrs. to peoples' first names though. 

[CandyCorn 428]

I call my hero Joe Kelly by his last name. XD That's just because most sports commentators use last names rather than first names and such.

[Dan. 1,825]

Depends..at work sometimes if we need to get someones attention we'll use their sir name.

[Ziltoid the Omniscient 286]

Dinkleberg...... >.>

[Divine plywood 1,239]

It depends, I call most of people I know from army by their last names, also one or two of my friends who happens to have same first name than my other friends... Other than that, not really. Of course I use last names from my professors and teachers, but my friends I usually call by their first or nicknames

Edited July 27, 2018 by Divine plywood

[StormBlaze 992]

Tis a very British thing imo to call someone by their last name. Thats normally how nicknames are formed. I gues sit comes from school since you could have like 3/4 James' in the class or year group, you just know them from their surnames.

Its certainly more of a boys thing at school to be called surnames. As a girl, at my school, we were called our full freaking names unles syou said otherwise. I despise being called Jessica. I'm a Jess.

 

[Phosphor 11,529]

I do sometimes, mainly at work tho.

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I did for some people at school, but it's usually because a few of the football players were almost always called by their last name.

[TBD 17,254]

Like how Snape does it? 

Mmyes...for teacher

[Jokuc 8,173]

Yep, there were a few people in school we called by their last names because multiple people had the same name, or because their last name was shorter.

[Wandering Weirdo 7]

If they share names with anyone else, especially with myself. It's just really weird to me to call someone else by my first name, which is a pretty common one so it happens often.

[RDDash 19,182]

Maybe just strangers that not on the first name basis,I am okay with calling people Mr or Ms. but it will freak me out if someone would call me Sir

[O-78 28,606]

I call my teachers by their last names, as I assume most people do. And sometimes some of my friends.

Edited September 8, 2018 by shyabetes3939

[Dashy 4 Ever 4,835]

Well, I call my friend's dads by their last names since it's weird for me to call them by their first names.

[Luna's Admirer 945]

No usually. I don't call anyone by his/her last name. My mother usually call me by my last name, as if a nickname though.

[Acons 43]

Few times. Usually when it's an infrequent last name. Very few times people have called me by my last name (but that happened)

Edited September 9, 2018 by Acons

[Rainbow Cloud 17,978]

Pretty much never, it's not really the social norm here to do that unless it's something formal where you say their name after their title like Mr/Miss/Mrs/Dr (Last Name) etc.

[Rixton 1,105]

In my country calling someone by his/her last name is generally a rudeness.

[Ricebug 555]

Only if they are already called that by other people of the same social group as I would be too embarrassed to ask for their first name.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

My chorale professor from last year called me by my last name. It was hard for him to pronounce my first name. 

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

No way. I always thought last names just sounds weird. I even call my teachers by their first name.

[Starlighty 969]

Sometimes... my thing is calling people by their full names. Though I do call my friend by their  initials 

[Nsxile 26,962]

I usually called my teachers by their surname back when I was in school... But only because I had to