For some unknown reason, my OH has always called me by a name that is very similar to my actual name, but is also a name in its own right. Everyone we met after we got together called me the name that OH uses, and as I actually preferred it, I didn't correct them.
This only changed maybe 10 years ago, when I had a new email address that actually used my proper name - suddenly people started querying it, some quite worried that I might be upset by the fact they had been getting my name wrong, for well over 40 years in some cases.
Oh, and my parents tended to use an abbreviated form of my name.
Definitely confusing - even my older brother admitted not too long ago that he wasn't sure what my name was!
