Calling child by middle name

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

This is kind of related to the post about grandparents and other people insisting on calling kids something else than what their parents have decided their name is.

I was wondering, is it considered offensive or annoying to call a child by their middle name even though their parents call the child by their first name?

Edited to add:

What if the situation was reversed, as in parents calling their children by their middle names but other people call them by their first? I know a whole family with 4 children where all of them including the parents go by their middle names and not their first.

Is calling someone by their first name when they go by middle less offensive than calling someone by middle rather than first?

Comments

[inmeggsyoutrust.livejournal.com]

While we chose both names, we chose the order of the names for a reason and since typically people only are called by their first name, one would assume that if that name were being passed over by a certain group of people in favor of the second name, then they're saying "we don't like what you chose to name your child, this will have to do as his/her name instead of what you decided on"

It's like saying, I don't care what you said I'm doing this instead and screw your feelings.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

yeah I see what you're saying. Never thought of it that way to be honest, but that's exactly why I was asking in the first place :)