It was one of my favourite names too until everyone (including bogans) started calling their kids Mia/Mya.

I'm called by my abbreviated name much more often than by my full name, although those closest to me tend to use my full name.

Mia is actually one of the top popular names in the US these days. Ah, well. It wasn't common back when I picked it.

Sundae -- a woman from the bank was one the phone with me one day and kept calling me "Marry-ah." I kept trying to correct her, but I only succeeded in getting her to call me "MAAAAAAAAAH-ree-ah." Sigh.

... and they call the wind, the wind.

I was asked today what name I would like to have as my log-in at school (these things are only done once a year.) I asked for my derivative, which I see far more as my "real" name than my birth name. Which was fine with out IT peson, who always calls me that.

It does bug me a little that the Office Staff call me by my formal name, having been advised of my preference, but I guess that's because all the paperwork they handle uses it.
Something like a Criminal Records Bureau check does not allow for abbreviations.
But they don't call Mrs I Joanna, they call her Jo.
Still, she's been there for 11 years and I haven't officially been there one.

I'll win them over.

And I need to find some more windmills to tilt at, this one's getting old.

I think everybody abbreviates their name? my names ana'ly but everybdoy calls me annie or anne, my dads name is agustin but we all call him augy or my mom is lilia but we call her lil and my sisters sofia goes by sofy
I'm big on pet names so yeaaa...(:

My name is monosyllabic and doesn't lend itself to nicknaming. But to one little girl and her mother, who both once acted in a play I was in, I'm Mister Owl. I like it.

Mine is two syllables, and also does not lend itself to a nickname.

And as long as Tootsie Pops don't enter the conversation, what was the name of the play?

You showed up a little late.

I've used it here since the early 90s.