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

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

It's ridiculous to expect strangers to know your preferences.I mean I could see being irritated if the nurse or whatever had randomly picked the middle name for no reason, but generally people are called by their first name so it's unreasonable to expect a stranger to know that your child is called something else.

[lissalynn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for understanding, I agree. I mean, we literally have people where we will call in "Jonathan" and they'll be like "IT'S MALIKAI!" (which isn't even the middle name, just a random nickname...). Like, really?

We also will have parents purposely ignore us in the waiting room when we call their child in by their given name, because they are so mad we don't know Jacob goes by Devon.

It's so ridiculous.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

My father was named after his father so his first name is Eric, but he has always been Peter in order to avoid confusion. Naturally all official records use Eric. If someone he's going to be dealing with more than once calls him Eric he politely corrects them, they generally make a note of it, and everything is happy. I can't imagine him getting annoyed over it - people aren't psychic!