This college-attending troper has had a couple professors that allow their students to address them by first name. For this troper, that and said professors also being attractive women that look to be in their 20's or early 30's makes things a little too comfortable for comfort.

Subverted with his close female friend, who always calls him "Raymond" and never "Ray." He's only seen her write his name as the latter once.

In Israel, teachers are referred to by their first names. Cue me trying to find out their last, and it's impossible.

Really? I've found out the last names of all my teachers very easily. Except for one, but that's more because his last name is impossible to spell and pronounce. I had to sit down with his son for fifteen minutes when he coached me on how to pronounce and spell it.

At this troper's summer camp, it was less a measure of how close we were and more out of necessity. One year, there were about thirty of us in a group together, and there were about five people who were the only ones with their first name, so we all fell into the habit of calling mostly everyone by their last or full names. A few years later, more people stopped coming back every year, and it became easier to use first names without confusion.

This troper is on a first name basis with far too many professors in his department. Perhaps it's a sign he's been around too long.

This troper will likely always be referred to on a first name basis. The reason. My last name is Wahsquonaikezhik and people upon seeing it either say; A variation on "How they *** do you pronounce it?", Make some attempt at pronouncing usually screwing up the first four syllables out of a possible five. Although I sometimes joke to my friends about getting a job that runs on last name basis.

This troper attended a Quaker college, where the idea of "simple speech" extended to "no titles," so all professors and administrators were on a first name basis.

This troper's father is on first name basis with everyone because no one can figure out how to pronounce Psk on the first go unless they're Serbian or insanely lucky. Ironically, in an inversion of the first-name-equals-serious-business thing that applies to most people, it's when you call my dad by his last name that he knows something's gone wrong.

As far as this troper knows every school on the Pacific island where he's living and working at the moment is like this. Given that most of the teachers are ex students (some of whom just finished school last year) and many students are related in some way to teachers it just doesn't make sense to call them 'Mr./Miss or Sir/Ma'am.

This troper arrived in college unprepared for the level of familiarity. Every professor instructed us to call them by their first name. But, as a human being, I slipped and called one professor sir... Which just led to a worse faux pas... "Please, Sir is my father. Call me Jim." "Sorry, sir... but you are old enough to be my father!" Fortunately, he had a great sense of humor.

There is a strange variant of this in this troper's school. While most people go to FirstNameBasis when they are close, in my school, they go to LastNameBasis. Example, If my best friend had the name Gloria Howards, I would call her Howards instead of Gloria. It's a strange thing.

In The Netherlands and Germany, it generally is considered ''more'' intimate to call somebody by their ''last'' name, as long as you skip titles like "mister" or "miss".

This Troper works for a law firm which, for the sake of this tale, we'll call Fox Redfield. It's a ''major'' firm in its field. The firm was founded by Mr. Fox1 back in the 30s, and currently Mr. Fox2 and Mr. Fox3 work here. Mr. Fox2 is in his 80s, has argued before the Supreme Court, and is basically one of the most important lawyers in his field in the city, if not the country. I work in the IT department but, for various reasons, my office is just around the corner from his. For the first six months, when I passed him in the hallways, I always said, "Good morning, sir." (Or "evening" or whatevs.) He eventually quietly said, "I've never felt like a 'sir'. Call me David." I've never actually managed to do so.

In the military, this is ''HIGHLY'' frowned upon for people in the same chain of command. Nevertheless, this troper's wife is in this status with his commander (This troper is an E-4, and his commander is an O-6).

Upon high school graduation, I and my group of friends decided we'd be addressing our old teachers by first name. Our literature teacher would facetiously have none of this ("No! You can't call me Alan until you're a junior in college!") while the Model UN teacher had been embracing this behavior halfway through senior year, before we had even made this decision.

This Troper prefers to go by his first name among people he talks too on the internet, mainly because his handle is too long to easily type.

I attended a Catholic high school, but became very close to my senior religion teacher. Almost immediately after graduation, she all but ordered me to call her Sara - whereupon I confessed that I had been thinking of her as Sara since the middle of the school year.

Inversely, our theater department had so many Elizabeths that they all went by some variation on their last name, except for one, who was simply "Liz". Like I said, Catholic high school...

My class has two teachers. We call the one we get on Fridays 'Tom'.

All teachers in this troper's middle/high school were a first name basis. Many substitutes became offended when we refused to address them by their last. And now, in college, I find it easier to call my profs by their first name.

This troper goes to the local alternative school, where we call all of our teachers by their first names.

I've attended the same church all my life, and have found it hard to switch to FirstNameBasis with my parents' generation. Sure, I'm nearly thirty, but these are people who taught me Bible stories and used to change my diaper.

In college, my philosophy teacher gave us no choice but to call him by his first name. In fact, if he caught us calling him "Professor [last name]", he'd call us by "Student [last name]".

A foreign classmate of this troper does this all the time, which confuses people when the person she's referring to is known by nickname or surname.

As noted on the main page, in Sweden the custom is to use first name in casual situations. However, during junior high, one of my classmates started adressing everyone by their last names, because he thought this would make him look cool and non-conformist. He stopped fairly soon after... because it just made him look like a pretentious fool.

When one of our school's drama teachers became pregnant, she was temporarily replaced by an {{Expy}} of Mr. Schuster from Glee; handsome, young, musically talented, and the definition of "cool". Everyone began to view him as a friend and confidante as much as an instructor, and at the conclusion of the last play of the year he told the seniors that they were now allowed to call him "Joe".

Standard for a few high school teachers and college professors this American troper's known. Oddly, it's also been true for almost every job he's ever worked in: with the (usual) exception of ''the'' boss, people referred to each other by first name, even if they were in a superior position, to the point that he didn't even know some superiors' last names!

Amusingly, one high school teacher preferred to be called by her last name, but said she'd allow us to call her by her first name on the condition that we name our firstborn child after her (she wanted this in writing). No one had the guts to take her up on this.