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I saw Mel earlier today.
B:
Did you? I haven’t seen her for weeks.

We use first name + family name (surname) when we are not sure if
the person we are talking to knows who we’re talking about:

Do you know Simon Perry?
Joy Goodfellow had to go to hospital today. I’m not sure why.
We use a title (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Prof) and the surname in more
formal situations. We don’t usually use the title alone, or the title and
first name (although we sometimes use a job title):
Dr O’Donnell, can I ask you a question?
Not: Dr David, can I ask …?
Could you ask Mrs Zatta to call me when she gets back?
Not: Could you ask Mrs to call me …?
We use Mr / mɪstə(r)/ for men. We do not usually write ‘Mister’ in

full. We use Mrs / mɪsɪz/ for married women.
Ms /məz/ does not indicate if the person is married or not. Some
women take on their husband’s surname and the title Mrs when they
get married. Some women prefer to keep their surname and use the
title Ms.
In formal contexts, we sometimes use Master for boys and Miss for
girls.Miss also indicates single status (not married). The use of Miss is
becoming less common among younger women, and Master now
sounds old-fashioned.
Parents and grandparents
We use mother (usually formal), mum, mam, mummy (less
formal) mom(American English) to talk to a mother,
and father (usually formal), dad, daddy, papa (less formal) to address
a father. For a grandmother we usegran, grandma, nana, nan, and for
grandfather we use grandad, grandpa, granpy, gramps, pops:

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