Do people know you more by your nickname than your real name?

My name is pretty hard to change, so I've been known by the same name all my life. Some people mispronounce it or try to shorten it, and I correct them everytime. I was named that for a reason, and it was that the name would be impossible to change.

Well in my case it is not my nick name people call me but they call me by my surname. They keep calling me by that surname only and at times I wonder that they have completely forgotten my real name.

Hey my father is know by his nickname more than his real name. Even when he gets a wedding invitation from some distant relative whom we havent seen for a while writes his nickname at the front instead of his real name. And even his school friends call him with the nick name itself.

I get called mostly by my first name. Or EJ by my family because of the history behind that nickname. Now that I think about it I get called kitten rarely and I really don't have many nicknames that are used often.

I'm always known by my nickname, though everyone knew my real name. My nickname sounds better and real cool. I have very long name so my nickname will do.

Up until I was 16, everyone called me by my nickname, Genny (my real name is Genesis). I decided at that point that I didn´t want to be known by my nickname anymore (which everyone thought was Jenny, short for Jennifer), so I just started introducing myself as Genesis. It was hard going, since my family and friends couldn´t make the change after so many years, but eventually, everyone new that I met called me by my real name. Now that I live in another country, no one even knows that I used to be called Genny, except my husband. But here, my name is pronounced in Spanish, so I am now known as "Henesees", which I suppose is another form of a nickname!