Calling child by middle name

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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

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as for calling a kid by their middle name, in most of the cases I can think of, it's because the kid is a junior and they want him to have the same legal name as the dad, but then call him something different so as not to be confusing. or like my grandparents, who named my aunt Mary Christine because she was born christmas eve, but preferred her middle name and called her that. like I said in a comment above, there are names yo ulike and names you choose just to honor someone (or some event?) and if a paent wants to differentiate, it's up to them.

I also know a few people who decided to go by their middle names. one was my uncle, because he was named for two people and didn't feel as connected with the person his first was after, but was very close with the person his middle was after. the other was the son of a friend of my mom, who decided his first name (kaylie--this was way before the crazy increase in popularity) was too girly so he went by the common nickname for his middle (james/jim).