Haifagirl – In the social world of goyim and not so frum Jews, almost everybody gets called by their first name, even by children. It’s still not that rampant in the frum community. Their social world is different than their professional or business world. This is the changes we had in this country over the last 40-50 years!
The point is, I never encountered the phenomenon of being called by my first name until the frum community. In the goyish world, it never happened.