My lil brother is Larry. In first grade his teacher told him that he had to use Lawrence. Our mom had to take his birth certificate to the school and meet with the teacher & principal. The teacher wasn’t pleased.
When I was in the Navy, one of the guys in my shop was named Tracy, tho, being the Navy, we pretty much called each other by last names anyway. This was almost 50 years ago.
Similar story for a friend named Kathy. The nuns insisted she had to be Kathleen or Katherine till her mom brought in her birth certificate.
I expect my late FIL went thru similar crap - his given name was Bobbie. Cute for a toddler, but rather startling for a white-haired man on a cane. Maybe that’s why he stayed with one employer for his entire career - once they got his name right, he didn’t want to deal with it again?
My daughter’s name is Sarah. At her daycare, I once told one of the workers that it was “Sarah with an h” - and the next day, she came home with something labeled Sarha, which became a running joke in the family.
What is it with teachers disregarding what a kid wants to be called? I read countless such anecdotes. It’s just plain disrespectful.
A girl who went to my school had the last name Tannenbaum (German for Christmas tree). Her first name was Holly, thus Holly Christmas Tree.
Cute. 
I’ve known a couple of males named Tracy. They both made it seem like the coolest thing ever. 
Or as in “They were playing Hootie & the Blowfish in the delivery room and I couldn’t remember that singer’s exact name and then the pain killers kicked in.”
I knew a Larry who became a lawyer and was not happy because it wasn’t attorney-like enough.
I have a male cousin named Ashley, his mother was a big fan of Gone With the Wind and named him after the character Ashley Wilkes. She lived in the south and perhaps that was more common there. I’m not sure when the name was appropriated for girls, but I have heard of men being call Ash, which may be short for Ashley.
It wasn’t this guy, was it?
I used to work with a man whose legal name was Stacy. His preferred nickname was “Smoky.” I’m not sure how he got it.
Just as well his parents didn’t give him an extra initial. Who’d want to go through life being called T. Trae?
My uncle (born in the 1930s) was officially Georgie.
He was universally known by a shorter nickname, “George.”
Somewhere there’s a woman named Karen Brandon who’s had a really, really bad year or so.
[Googles “Karen Brandon”]
“About 143,000,000 results (0.39 seconds)”
There was a kid I went to school with named “Boy”
Many jokes flew around his mom couldn’t think of a name for him. He was actually named a family name “Boyette”
Which is arguably worse. For a guys first name. IMO
I wonder whether “Boyette” was an Anglicized spelling for a French name.
I knew a grown woman known as Baby Girl, which was her nickname as a young child. Her first name was Mia, however she lived and worked in an area that was largely Spanish speaking and her real first name caused a lot of confusion so she decided to revert to her childhood nickname.
Customer: ¿Cual es su nombre?
Mia: Mia
Customer: Si, me refiero a ti. Porfavor, dime tu nombre.
Mia: Bebita.
I predict stormy weather.
The first day in one of my high school classes, and the teacher was taking roll for the first time. When she got to Jeffery, he said “the ery is silent.” She was a horrible woman and was nasty to him after that. But I hated her for other reasons.
Let us not forget Maynard G. Kreps from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. His middle name was ‘Walter’, named after his aunt. The G was silent.