DD calling her dad by his name??

my near two year old tries out both DF and my names every now and then... some times I even hear her pretending to talk to us on the phone using our names... however, generally she does say mum or dad... I usually just respond by saying "I'm mummy" or something along those lines... also most the time we call each other mum or dad in her presence... my oldest (13 year old from previous relationship) always says daddy to her as well when referring to DF... if lots of modelling the use of "dad" doesn't work then he could try him not responding to her requests when she uses his name, if it doesn't work (i.e. get his attention) she won't keep using it... however, rather than just ignoring her I would respond saying "dad"... If she is always hearing everyone else saying his name it could be very confusing so I would work on all calling him dad to start with try not to stress though she'll get it eventually!

I think it's a phase they go through. Alia would call us by our first names. We'd correct her & they grow out of it. Now she calls me Mum or Mummy & says to other adults my real name so they know who her Mum is.

My 18 month old will try and yell out DH's name inseatd of dada aswell sometimes, and its just because he hears me call it out all the time.
But we always refer to Dh and daddy or dada and me and mama or mummy.

So when she says his name just keep correcting her, she will eventually start calling him daddy again Toddlers go through funny little phases all the time.

My son says Adaaaa Adaaa, cos my husband is called Adam lol

Don't know if this helps but I grew up with my grandparents and my mum. I call my grandparents mum and dad and my mum by her first name to be like everyone else, they never corrected me so I never stopped.

I agree with what everyone else has said though just keep correcting her and perhaps don't respond unless she says dad. Also try get your 8yr old to refer to him as dad to her as well...

yeah i have talked to my 8 year old about calling him dad even if its just when shes around our youngest but she has a problem with calling him that as her dad has past away so makes things tricky but i am doing whats been said so far and is helping although shes still saying his name i think this may just be a phase its stressing me out!

Yep Hazel calls her Daddy Jess so everytime she would say his name we would say no, Dad. So now she calls him dess lol until she hears me say Jess in which case she goes back to saying Jess as well. we just ignore it now.