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Originally Posted by Rasuberi
Spoiler for My poor explanation:
The relevance is that CLANNAD takes place in Japan, Tomoya is Japanese, and thus he and other characters may tend to act like Japanese people. Sorry for wording it like that, but I've just been studying so much Japanese lately, and tsui...
Anyways, it just symbolizes that he's comfortable by calling certain people by their given names and others he isn't. It also depends on the level of closeness and the other characters personality. Sometimes you get so used to calling someone the way you've always called them, that you may just never switch to their given name, etc. There is a significance, but it isn't that big of a deal. Except for with Nagisa. Because it's embarrassing for him. Wonder why.  ニヤニヤニヤニヤ
I could explain much more... but I'd go on big tangents about Japanese culture and such.
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Aa, ProtoMan beat me to it. However we both share different explanations so oh well. : O