To insist people call me by this name?

[BiscuitEnjoyer]

I have a very recognisable-as-a-first-name first name e.g. Emma and a Danish surname e.g. Lykke (not my real name) that also somewhat works as a first name. Since the age of 8, I've gone almost exclusively by my last name as I really dislike my first name. Everyone aside from my grandparents knows me as Lykke.

Moved to the UK aged 32 with my ex company that had a lot of Danish people. I've since left that company and am 2 months into my job at a new company. What grates me is that many colleagues will always somehow default back to calling me Emma despite numerous gentle prompts.

Asked my lunch partner why that's the case and she says that people feel embarrassed around names they can't pronounce and that it feels weird for some people to call someone by a name they know is their last name when their first name is clearly a first name!

AIBU to 'insist' people call me Lykke?
I'm not going to be forceful or anything but I'm planning to just give gentle prompts until it takes.

You need to get ‘Emma’ taken off all your work stuff. Email, badge, colleague directory etc should all be Lykke Lykke. This is how my colleague Mac Mackenzie does it. No one even knows his first name.

it’s not using names that aren’t brittish that people are afraid of in my experience. It’s using a nickname name that feel overly familiar if you don’t know the person that well. Going by the name someone has in writing is much safer. I will always call my colleague mathew and not Matt because that’s what he has on his email address

Of course you can insist - it's your name! Every time someone calls me Emma, just say (nicely) - 'I go by Lykke.' Keep saying it and it'll stick eventually.

Good luck with that. Brits call people whatever they like. Some of them to the point where they will be insist that foreigners assume a British name to be called at work.

But it they can pronounce
"Volodymyr Selenskyy", "Dvorak", "Tchaikovsky" or "Chopin", they can pronounce "Lykke". Meaning that they can if they will.

On another post yesterday people recommended to add pneumonics (forgive me if thats incorrect word or spelling - dyslexic).

To help them with pronunciation.

I feel that a PP has this - calling someone by their surname feels like a nicknamey thing to do and people may feel they are being overly familiar by doing it unless invited to. It is fine to politely say to people - actually no one calls me Emma, I go by Lykke. I would hope the Danish/pronunciation issue will not come into it. I know someone who goes by their surname and another person who goes by their first name and surname (both one syllable Chinese names).