One friend of mine does that. I think it’s because his parents weren’t very close when he was growing up.

Europe.

I’m very close with my mom, I call her interchangeably her name or “mom”. My friends know her and I speak of her often at work and in general because we hang out a lot, so most people have met her and/or know her well by her actual name.

I am not as close with my dad and call him dad most of the time, unless trying to get his attention - he is very bad at reacting or responding to anything but his name if he isn’t listening fully. I mostly spend time with him in family situations, unlike my mom who I consider friend as well as family.

It’s not the most common to call your parents by their name here, but it’s not super unusual or disrespectful either.

Chinese

When I play with my kid, he call me by my nickname.平时都喊爸爸

I don’t call my parents by their first names. Neither do my siblings.

My kids also use “mom” and “dad”, and we also use “mom” or “dad” when referring to each other parent to the kids.

My wife would call her dad by his first name, but only when she was calling him out for being goofy. In response to a dad joke, for example.

Personally, I don’t consider it a nickname. More like a title that I’ve earned. It’s like calling someone “doctor”. If my kids used my first name, I’d probably give them a raised eyebrow in response.

I’m German and switched from Mama/Papa (mom/dad) to their first names sometime in my early teens as did my sister. I couldn’t say how exactly it happened—just felt too old to use the former. But that’s not universal here; I know people who still use the nicknames in their forties.

I call my mom, “Gestating progenitor” as an inside joke but anytime I call her by her name she calls it out. Tho, I get it. Worked pretty hard not to get called mom

I’ve always done that with both my parents, but then again I’m Danish. It’s a radically different culture. Families are not seen as particularly inherently important here. It’s usually not even a meritocratic assessment of the family as a unit - it’s an individual one. You might like some people, you might dislike others. Either way, is has almost nothing to do with whether a blood relation exists or not.

“An asshole’s an asshole.”

Edit: Along similar philosophical lines, there’s no particular veneration of age. Age and wisdom might be proportionally related, but one does not guarantee the other. Some people manage only to grow more foolish with age. Precocious children exist.

I’d be very interested in exploring the differences between cultures more with you, assuming you’re willing.

The only one I know personally has a very bad relationship with her mother, so she intentionally keeps a distance.

I know some do it even if they have a great relationship. It feels weird to me because it’s not the norm. Are they making a statement of some kind?

But basically only parents and grandparents are not called by name here. Uncles and aunts only when you’re young.

I’m an American. There definitely are some people who call their parents by their first names, but I have never done so (in a serious manner). I used to have a friend who would call her adopted mother by her first name, but that’s the only time I’ve ever witnessed it personally. If someone were to refer to their parents by first name, I would assume they’re very distant.

Even though I’ve had complicated relationships with both my parents (as they were both abusive), I would never consider calling them by first name. I did so once in a joking manner with my dad many years ago, and his response scared me into never doing that again, lmao. It’s strictly “Mom” and “Dad” for them, even if I were to go no-contact in the future

It’s different with other family members, though. I similarly call my grandparents “Grandma” or “Grandpa,” but I’ll say “Grandma [First Name]” for example if I need to clarify whether it’s my maternal or paternal grandparent. I’ve only ever called aunts and uncles by their first names, but I’ll also clarify with “Aunt [First Name]” if the person I’m talking to isn’t familiar with them by name.

There’s definitely some level of respect expected to those of older generations, especially when blood-related, but I’m really against the whole idea. I despise the entire maternal side of my family; like, if I don’t like them, then I don’t like them. I’m not gonna put up with someone who’s a dick just because we’re “related.”

I call my parents ‘Mummy’ and ‘Daddy’ to their face, or ‘my mother’ and ‘my father’ to others, unless they specifically ask what their name is. I call my grandmas ‘Grandma [name]’, and my grandfather by a cultural title. Aunts and uncles I call ‘Aunt [name]’ to differentiate them. Siblings and cousins I call by their name.

I am from the UK

My second son calls his mother and I by our first names and has done since he was 5. None of our other kids do that, it is something he decided to do, and has continued. He is now 16

I do! I have a pretty good relationship with both my parents, but when I was around 9 years old I felt weird calling them by this “special” name unlike everybody else. They don’t seem to mind?

particularly Americans, apparantly are on first-name basis with parents… like either because they are very close, or very distant…

American here - I’ve known a couple of people that used their parents’ first names, but it’s pretty rare. I’m no/low contact with my father, and I’ve thought of just using his first name because I don’t feel like he deserves to be called “dad,” but I’ve called him dad my whole live and I think it would just feel weird to call him by his first name.

I’ve never called my parents by their first names, and I’ve never known someone who did.

I called my grandparents “Grandma and Grandpa [Last Name]”. But my aunts and uncles were “Aunt [First Name]” and “Uncle [First Name]”. I would say that’s pretty standard for the USA.