At this troper's high school, this is how it generally is, sort of. Newbies and sort of dorky guys call people by their first names (people you knew on a first-name basis before high school excepted) and everyone else generally goes by last names. This causes this troper to be called "Burns" or "Burnsy" constantly. Some people's names are shortened, some are combined with their first initial or name (Kevin Gibbons becomes "K-Gibbs") and some are nicknamed by their first name (Ray becomes "Ray-Ray" and Andrew becomes "Jru").

At work, you may expect LastNameBasis, but at this troper's high school, one of the class leaders was refered to by ''everyone'' by his last name. He pointed it out sheepishly when a roll call was done and he was still called "Sturkey" rather than his very normal name. This troper didn't like him, so to keep a distant tone with him, she had to use his ''first name''.

Long story: Spanish man lives with four Poles. His name is Alphonse Jesus. As "alfons" is Polish for "pimp", he is simply called Jezus.

Seriously? This troper likes the name Alphonse. :(

My real life name is Alex Ray. In general, people call me Ray Ray, Little Ray, Little Ray Ray, Sunshine, Raynina (don't ask), and Alex, roughly in that order. (I could put my name under TwoFirstNames and GenderBlenderName as well, but that would be weird and pretentious.)

More real life: In This Troper's freshman dorm, every male wound up being addressed this way in reaction to a horrifying overabundance of Daves and Gregs.

This troper's given name is a short series of simple sounds that absolutely defeats most English speakers on the phone. LastNameBasis it is!

Let's hear it. (Er... see it.)

This troper was once in a high school class of sixty-eight people. With that many people in one room first name duplication was inevitable, so last names became standard procedure, even when addressing the teachers.

This troper knew so many Cameron's that he ended up referring to them all by surname.

At this tropers school that problem was solved by replacing the Cs with the first letter of their last name (Wameron and Vameron). It helps that those two names are still pronounable.

In college, this troper had two Erics in her group of friends. Everyone called them by their last names, just so they wouldn't get mixed up. But then there were problems, because one of the Erics had a last name that sounds like it could be a first name, so newcomers to the group would always assume that it was his first name.

At this tropers high school nearly all the guys who he is not close friends with refer to him by his last name. This happens to no once else and it`s rather weird now that he thinks about it.

Yet more TruthInTelevision: At this troper's high school, nobody above freshman year addresses their teachers as "Mr" or "Mrs/Ms" anymore, unless you are polite or have transferred in. Also, nobody remembers why or when it started, but eventually we fashioned nicknames out of a particular science teacher's surname, which turned "(Ms.) Stahl" into "Stahlly," "Agent Stahlly" or for whimsical people, "Stahlly Olly Oxen Free."

Yet more truth in television. A boy in this troper's school with the last name 'Nedrud' has had his first name entirely replaced in common conversation with variations on 'Ned' and 'Drood' rather than nicknames for his first name.

One of my friends likes referring to people by their surnames. Another of my friends is often referred to as 'Stacey', his surname, meaning that this doubles as a GenderBlenderName.

Even more TruthInTelevision: This troper was the only one who ever called her ex by his first name, Mike. Everyone else called him Held. Holds true with my parents too; everyone calls my father by his last name, except for my mother, who calls him Rob.

For about two years, this troper called a friend of his, whom he met through Air Cadets, by his last name, almost always, out of habit, since that's how I spoke him in uniform. Now it's the reverse, I use his first name even while in uniform.

In middle and high school, this troper had been addressed by his last name by everyone (even the teachers) simply because there were a lot of kids in the school with the same first name as him.

This troper knew a guy whom everyone addressed as his surname -'' even his father, mother, sister and brother.''

This troper has a couple friends in which it kind of varies from person to person whether they call them by their last name or not. This troper changes around, often calling them by the first name that pops up and seems to flow better at the time. Oddly enough, there are first names of some people she knows that sound like last names. Also, most of the male teachers (particularly the gym teachers) are referred to by just their last name, without the Mr. She, on the other hand, has never really had the trope happen to her, as her last name is too hard to pronounce on the first try...and it's typically only been used to mock pathetically.

This troper, for whatever reason, is forever being addressed by her last name. Which she doesn't mind so much, with two exceptions: people assuming it's her first name, and the nonstop stream of jokes and smart remarks associated with her particular last name. (Hint: Anything that can go wrong, will - and no, my name isn't Sod or Finagle.)

This troper went to a British school where in many situations it was more common to go by the last name, or a nickname based on the last name (e.g. Benny from Someone Benson). About half his friends still go by those names now, years later.

This troper attends a college where teachers and students alike are on a last-name basis, which is a complete reversal of his high school.

Even out of class, I still get called by my last name more often than the rest of my circle. Not sure why,

This troper's high school biology teacher had a habit of referring to certain kids by their last names, even if he was on good terms with them. This troper was one of those kids.

She also knows a boy who goes by his last name only.

Virtually every male in this troper's family ends up with the same shortening of their last name as a nickname.

This troper had a friend who called him by his last name, with his reasoning being that we both had the same first name. Which'd make sense, except he was the only person who ever called me it. I would have gathered from context that he meant me, not ''him''.

This troper has a friend with the same first name, but after enough confusion, my friend kept his name, and I've since become Tobac. It was a very welcome change.

This Troper is named Alex. In his class were 3 other guys named Alexander so every one of them (including me) was called by their last name. Ironically we had 2 guys named Niko where we didn't use LastNameBasis.

I win. I know 5 Alex's (1 -ander, 1 -andria and 3 as is), but only one is referred to by first name. But justified, as his surname is ''Gay''.

This troper tends to assume that when interacting with a professional, like a doctor or lawyer, you call them by their last names. Her dentist apparently doesn't agree, and when he called her up after her wisdom tooth extraction to ask how she was, said, "It's Chris, how're things?". She was very confused since she didn't automatically connect the voice with the man she knew as Dr. Smith (and was a little doped up on painkillers too).

Subversiony type thing which is more like an aversion or just a random tangentially related anecdote: This troper's last name is Bruce, which she dislikes because it's not terribly snappy-sounding, which (among other things) makes it ill-suited for this trope. And if she did go by Bruce, it'd a) be taken for an unusual choice of TomboyishName and b) invite oodles of Monty Python jokes, which would be funny at first but become tiresome eventually.

More on-topic: This troper is incapable of thinking of her teachers as anything other than Mr/Mrs/Ms Last Name, which makes it rather jarring and slightly awkward when one of her parents refers to the teacher by their first name in conversation with the troper.

Yeah, there are about ten people with my first name in my year. As a result, everybody calls me Fletcher. Or Fletch. Some people have admitted to mistaking it for my first name.

This troper has had at least one person mistake his last name for his first.

This troper's physics teacher addressed the luckier part of the class by their surname. (The unluckier ones got some degrading nicknames... Not if using surnames only wouldn't be degrading ''enough'' in Hungary: calling someone on his/her surname only is considered rude, worse than using Japanese names without any honorific. However, before TheGreatPoliticsMessUp it was usual in schools, but since then it's very rare)

This troper knows a guy with the last name "Allcock". It's inconceivable to want to call him by his first name.

Reminds this troper of when his uncle told him a story about him working as a security guard and checking the ID of a man named "Holden Hiscock".

While we're on this topic, my mum told me about a patient by name of Steel Cox.

This Troper knows someone named Jack Sexton, and always used to call him by his full name, but not for the reason you might think. I was maybe 5 or 6 at the time, and did so to keep everyone from confusing him with the Jack that jumped over the candlestick.

This troper has a friend who went by Last Name Basis until recently, so more recent friends will call him by his first name and older friends by his surname. Strangely, it's yet to get confusing. Of course, this troper also calls everyone who shares his incredibly common first name by their last name.

In secondary school, ''everybody'' except a few of the teachers called this troper by his last name.

This troper has a friend who has the last name "Tuzon". He was referred to his last name (or a variation thereof) by ''everyone'', including his closer friends and some relatives.

Only one of the teachers at This Troper's high school (an absolutely foul math teacher) calls everyone by their last name, prefixed by a"Mr" or "Miss." This was dealable until he called my name in class and subsequently pronounced it wrong throughout '''the entire year.''' (In case you're wondering, my last name's Coughlin. (It's pronounced "Cog-lin", not "Cough-lin."))

This troper began being called by his last name by everyone at some point and now he prefers it. His small group of friends have a long-running fan-fiction-type mythos in which a version of him from an alternate universe is known solely by his/my first name.

This troper knows when it happened (in high school) and has got so used to it that now, whenever someone who is not a relative or a elementary school classmate uses her first name, it's incredibly awkward. Teachers in college tend to do it, sadly.

This troper's high school band director called everyone by their last name, horribly mangaling all of them in the process. Of course, when he tried to call people by their first names it was ''worse''.

The same troper had a specific high school friend (for lack of a better term) who she called by his last name. Their senior year, his sister went to the same school and started responding to this troper calling out the last name (think alonmg the lines of Dave yelling "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalvin!)" forcing her to address the friend by his first name.

This troper goes to a summer camp with a lot of girls named Sara. When we can't think of nicknames for all of them, last name basis is used but the letter S is tacked on to the front of the last name. This leads to some interesting sounding names.

This troper's Latin class was all first-name or CanisLatinicus Nickname basis -- except for Dickens. It wasn't weird at all until this troper started reading ''A Tale of Two Cities'' in class one day -- and even then it was just funny.

There were ''four'' guys with the same first name in this troper's class in middle school. LastNameBasis was pretty much a necessity. After a while we all forgot what their first was.

This troper's current circle of friends includes two Matts and two Stephanies. To distinguish them, we sometimes use Full and sometimes LastNameBasis. The latter is useful when talking to one Matt or Stephanie about the other, and was particularly useful on the day we went to a ropes challenge course. The two Stephanies decided to do the two-person climbing challenge together, leaving the rest of us to call out encouragement and advice using their last names.

This troper's first name is pretty common, so he is often referred to by his last name and various nicknames based on it. Even his girlfriend has done this, which has backfired when trying to tell others to find him in a list alphabetized by ''first'' name, and when talking to his parents for the first time.

It's weird at my school. On one hand, every other student has the last name of Kim or Lee, so last name basis doesn't work too well...but there are a handful of kids who are known only by their (more distinctive) last names. Quite a few of them are jackasses, so for some reason it functions as a kind of ''insult''. But only if you're talking about another student; teachers are always referred to by their last names. Yeah, my school is weird.

This Troper is in the US Army. It kind of goes by default that everyone's on a last name basis with everyone else.

This Troper has been called his last name throughout grade school, because he resembles his older brother and had many of the same teachers. After calling him by the wrong name a couple of times, each of them eventually gave up and used his surname. This caught on and even managed to carry on to college. It has gotten to the point that friends call his house asking for his last name and when they introduce people to him they only use his last name. Cue strange looks. But eventually everybody just goes with it.

On the shop floor, everyone has only one name, their last. In the office, everyone has only the first name. Supervisors (who run the floor and are often in the office) and Engineers/Technicians (who are mostly in the office but often on the floor), get it from both ends. As a rule, a "Red Hat" (Engi/Tech) will call you by your first name, while a "White Hat" (Floor Operator) uses your last.

While this no longer applies at University, back in High school this troper had 3 other Jeffs in his class. So to almost everyone he was "Bain" or "Bainer". The only exception being when my full nickname was used, at which point I'd be "Jeff the Pirate"

This troper only ever referred to her (now ex-)boyfriend by his last name. There was a good reason for that, but in retrospect it does seem odd.

This troper used to go to a Jujitsu school rife with other Michaels and Mike variants. Naturally, last name basis ensued. This went on for so long that it took on EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep proportions causing the occasional newby to think Esposito was my first name.

This Troper and everyone else called one guy in our class by his last name. The weird thing is his first name was fairly unique. Also called the twins in school by their last name.

ThisTroper was on a complete LastNameBasis with just about everyone in high school, partly because he played sports (and thus his first introduction to others was as the last name), and partly because his ''first'' name was the most popular boy's name for most of the 1900s. For the first few months of the school year, most of his friends didn't even ''know'' his first name.

When I joined my high school's swim team as a freshman, there were six other girls named "Rachel," all spelled the same. So my coach called me by my last name. Which is a first name for most people. A ''male'' first name. Four years later, I'm the only Rachel, we have all new coaches, and I'm still known by my last name.

Early in my Army service, I got thoroughly into the LastNameBasis mindset ... so much so that once when someone ''who outranked me'' addressed me by my first name, I rebuked him, ''denying that it was my name''. It's not that it's a weird or embarrassing name (it's one of the most common male names in my generation), I'd just come to think of my last name as the ''only'' correct form of address for anyone but family.

I am a Chris, and I work around at least three other similarly named people (one of whom is female). Some have taken to calling me by my surname, some have not. We also have two Julies, three Amandas, three Melissas and most recently two Cheryls (one blind, one deaf). Bizarrely, if you're not a Chris, nobody will call you by your surname.

Coming from an all girls school this doesn't happen much, though in my old school, the large amount of 'Thomas'-es as happens in England led to nicknames such as 'Bazza' (Thomas Baron) and 'Star Boy' (Tom Starr). Similarly, the male alternative to our school has the same thing. The closest we have in my school was 'Davidson' because of the large amount of Lucy-s, which is weird since 'Davidson' sounds immensely masculine. I perosnally am referred to by my internet alias more than my real name, which is in fact a made up name in itself.

This troper went to a school that was firmly on a FirstNameBasis, even with the teachers. Unfortunately, there were about eight Davids, so we inevitably got referred to by our surnames.

Similarly, this troper went to a school where all the students were on FirstNameBasis, except for in my group of friends, which consisted entirely of Jameses and Stevens. We used surnames.

When I'm in my hometown I can't even use THAT for my friend group, since it consists of both the pair of me and my brother, and 2 friends (one of whom shares my brother's name). We've roughly settled on my brother being "little bain" and his name counterpart being "the asshole", because first names and last names each would have created confusion.

It's not only teachers to students, or just acquaintances. This British troper referred to his best school friends by their surnames as well, even though there wasn't anyone else in the year by their first names. First names were saved for special moments of emphasis (oddly, rather like one might normally use a surname to get someone's attention; it's just using an unfamiliar address that does it).

This led to confusion when one of my friends, known almost universally by his surname- Hester- read MortalEngines.

Two schools this editor attended this became a problem having two members of staff with the same surname, both schools were determined that this trope would not be subverted]] protocal would not broken. The second school it was easy as the pair were Father & Son so the students call the Father: Elder Mr. Surname or Headmaster Surname, the Son: Young Mr. Surname. The first, you could tell they where clutching a straws when they came up with this idea, because the pair ''were not'' related the students had to call then Mr. Mathematics Surname and Mr. P.E. Surname - note P.E. weren't his initals they stood for Physical Education.

Similarly, in this editor's high school two brothers were teachers--one was a substitute, the other a coach/PE teacher; we as a student body referred to them as "Hot Mr Ross" (he was) and "The Other Mr Ross". Still don't know their first names.

In this troper's school, teachers with the same surname just get their first initial added to their surname: as in Ms. S. Walsh and Ms. B Walsh. Still keeps the surname important, but no one but this troper has wondered what would happen if two teachers shared the first initial and surname?

In this troper's American high school, this was used for many male students (not all of whom had common first names), but not for female students. This was particularly noticeable when a female upperclassman's younger brother joined the school and was referred to by their last name while she was known by her first.

The military. While this troper was doing his service (in the German army) he tried hard not to address his roommates and closest friends on last name basis but he was powerless against the peer pressure. Everyone wearing a nametag with only their last name all the time didn't help either.

Also the US military. ThisTroper took ''months'' to get back in the habit of remembering that people even ''had'' first names after leaving military service. The only exception was immediate family members.

While in the military, it is entirely possible to be close friends with someone for years and never even ''know'', much less use, their first name. Your last name becomes your only name. If there's two of you in the same unit with the same surname, then you go by last name, first initial...

And if the first initial is the same, then you differentiate by full first names, if those the same, you go by middle initials or names, and if THOSE are the same, you go by last 4 digits of service number. In one of my units, we had a pair of soldiers who had the exact same names, birthdays, AND last 4. They went by "Good" Private Bishop and "Evil" Private Bishop...

This trope is absolutely necessary if multiple friends have the same first name. Trying to distinguish between 4 different Matthews gets old very quick. The hardest last name usually gets to keep the first name.

This troper's Boy Scout troop had about five boys all with the first name of Nick, so those boys were usually referred to by only their last names.

At this troper's school, a popular English teacher is always refereed to as Dean, barely ever with his title of Dr. Reversely though, he refers to his physics teacher as Gleitz, whereas everyone else calls him Mr. Gelitz. Yes, people find it odd.

If this troper uses the last name to refer to someone, it usually means that she generally dislikes said person.

This troper used to study with a guy whose last name was Pia. Trope was invoked as Pia is a legitimate female name.

Has anyone else been commonly refereed to as their last name, had someone call their house and had other family members pick up? HilarityEnsues

This troper met many people most commonly known by their surname, usually because said last name was unique (Borella, Veras, Lubambo...). It is useful when the OneSteveLimit is broken.

There's this guy I know who wants to be called my his middle name, Micheal, because his first name is Dante. Problem? There are now 3 Micheals in our class. We call Dante his last name now, one of the Micheals just Micheal, and the last one Mikey.

This Troper has one friend who only ever refers to him by his last name. He has been referred to by his first name by that friend maybe three times if memory serves. But that friend is the only person who does it, everyone else either calls him by his first name or first and last name.

I work with a guy who goes by his last name nearly everywhere he goes. One time we were joking around and he asked me some sarcastic question. I paused and said, "I don't know, Mike." His reply- "Did you just call me Mike?"

This troper's friends in middle school used this on everyone BUT him, since he has TwoFirstNames.

Averted by my friends and family. There is at least one girl also named Meghan in each of my classes, for simplicity's sake, I asked people to call me by my last name. It didn't take, I still get called by my first name, and the other girls with the same name have become Other Meghan.

This troper is referred to with her surname by one person. She, to put it lightly, is not on good terms with this person.

Most of this troper's friends refer to him by his last name. This is somewhat of an artifact from high school, where many guys were called by their last names. When the troper went to college, his friends from high school who went to the same college continued to call him by his last name, and it stuck with everyone else. It's gotten to the point where some people don't even know what the troper's first name is, and it sounds weird to be called by my first name by people who don't normally use it.

In high school, this troper had a few teachers address her by her last name because they couldn't be bothered to remember how to pronounce her first one - after correcting them a few times, they gave up. Teachers were generally referred to by their last names only in casual conversation with no honorific, or by nicknames. There were a few exceptions - a physics teacher called Doctor Raj was ''always'' Doctor Raj, which was in fact a short form of his first name.

In my small school, the students know most of the teachers well since they've seen them around for four years and have probably had their classes for a year or two. As a result, almost all of the students call teachers by their last names, or a nickname based on the last name. This is usually a sign of respect and esteem, but in a few rare cases it means quite the opposite. A few student's unusual last names become their main title.

This happened in my year at school as a result of there being four boys called Rhys.

Most of this troper's friends refer to him by his last name and always have, so by now he just introduces himself to new people as such. He actually prefers it, because a) it leaves a little distance between him and whoever he's being introduced to, and b) his first name is in Irish and he hates the sound of it.

This Troper and her best friend call each other by their last names, Groat and Koci respectively. We don't really have any idea when it started, but it might have been a result of our names looking similar enough to warrant confusion when handing back homework (in grade 5, we were constantly getting the other person's homework handed to us).

This troper went to Catholic high school, and as a result, more than 50% of guys were named Matt, Mike or John. This led to last name basis being standard for boys, but not girls. In an interesting twist, this (female) troper got referred to as her last name quite a bit, in part because her last name was cooler than her first, she hung out with mostly guys and was really into math and science.

This troper's keyboarding teacher insisted that we all went by our last names, as well as that we would only put our last names on our work. As luck would have it, more than a few of us had last names that also could be used as first names (Bonny, Glenn, Francis, etc.), causing the teacher to lecture us constantly about "putting down our first name instead of our last".

This troper's friend actually went through an interesting shift, he was first introduced by his first name, then went by his middle name, then people started calling him by his last name, and now his last name has been morphed into a separate nickname.

This troper's teammates began referring to him as Shifty, a nickname based on his last name, freshman year. Now, during his senior year, everyone on the team and anyone who knows him through his teammates call him Shifty more often than not. In fact, any time he needs to introduce himself and his teammates are around, he introduces himself as Shifty.

This was extremely common at this troper's middle school, to the point that the only people who weren't were people with ridiculously long last names.

This troper found it weird that in all the examples it was considered weird to call someone on last name basis if you had the same last name as them. My dad, all of his brothers and some cousins are known as "Hilly", and they quite often exclusively refer to each other as that. They rarely have any problem with it, but it confuses the hell out of me.

This troper is usually referred to by his last name. Justified because there are a few other people with the same first name as him, and his last name is pretty cool.

This Troper was referred to by her printmaking professor by her last name, which just happens to be a fairly common boy's name. The reason is his wife's name was the same as mine and he felt weird calling anyone else that.

During the Upper Level of Comprehensive School (The Finnish equivalent of Middle/High School), everyone in This Troper's class was referred to by their last name. The only exception was he himself. This is because his last name is literally unpronounceable due to the fact that it has four consonants in a row when Finnish grammar only allows 2 or 3...

In my all-male high school we had so many duplicate first names (including five Brians) that it was common for you to be only called by your surname. I got used to only being called Klapper and have been introducing myself to people as just Klapper to this day. I always find it funny when there are people who know me for years and suddenly realize they can't remember my first name.

At this Troper's school, certain kids are referred to like this. L. Woods becomes "Woodsy," J. Likala becomes "Lakka-lakka," M. Stacey (a guy) gets called "Stacey..." xD

I know three people called Adam, one I call by his surname, because we were at school together and that was mostly what everyone used, one is my cousin, who I call Adam, the third one is friends with my cousin, and I call him by his full name (Adam Hill). Everyone else calls my cousin "Brit" which is a short version of our surname.

Since there are quite a few people with the same first name in our department, I tend to go by my surname about 1/3 of the time. Then again, we also have a tendency to refer to people by their university-issued email addresses and by various other nicknames.

This tropers first boss called him by his last name (Schiffer) because "It reminds [him] of the model"...This Troper is Male so make of that what you will.

And before you ask, no my first name is not Ulquiorra, It's Daisuke...which, Ironically enough, is also the first name of Ulquiorra's voice actor.