What is wrong with Granny?

I'm in my 50's and 1 was Grandma and 1 was Nana... 50 years ago. What on earth are you on about?

There’s nothing wrong with Granny but perhaps your sister associates the name with her own grannies so wants to be different. I chose to be granny because my own children had had two grandmas and I didn’t want to take their names.

@Jane958which leaves the title of non inverted snob for you?

I agree, although it's particularly "Nan" that sounds chair-in-the-corner-dozing-type-old to me.

But (and this isn't aimed at you, SALaw) whatever name it is that people think sounds old, presumably they'll have the sense - if/when they meet "Granny" or Nanny/Nan" etc - to react to the person.
When my DGC points me out as "Grandma" in 4 or so years time, people might initially visualise someone about 100 because of the name, but when they see me with their actual eyes they'll realise I'm quite a bit younger than that.
Likewise, when people see my acquaintance "Nanna", they'll probably spot she's in her late 70s, was no stranger to cigarettes for 40 years and won't think she should break her hip dashing to the "Glammas under 45" competition; she won't magically look different and more youthful due to being called Nanna.

See I think Nana sounds ANCIENT. No issue with Granny. Both my Grannies were young.

It was a joke

My SIL told her DS that she wanted to be called Nanna, as that was what she had called her own DGM.
She was told ‘Certainly not, it’s common’.
Though I would be appalled at being anything other than Granny, I felt sorry for SIL.

My DS had Grandma Marion, Nana B, Nana Flower5, Grandma O, - my DMIL, my DM, my GM, and my two DGMs..

Sounds like you’re the snob. There is nothing wrong with Nana. As I posted previously, I’ve always had Nana and my kids too. To suggest that people who name their grandparents something different to you means they are below you is so insulting.

ps. You are not royal, so doesn’t really matter what the Queen does.

I feel the same when people talk about their kids.

I had two Nanas and my kids also have Nanas. What’s wrong with Nana? What did her husband call his grandparents ? It might be that the reason.

Why surely? Each to their own I dislike grandma, nanny, granny, I'm.Nana!
In fact I wouldn't mind being just my name.....

My mum thought ‘nan’ or any of its variants was terribly low class.

I think I’d like to be known as granny. I had 2 grannies and I think it’s very sweet. Plus, I’m not a goat.

Yes tho, I don’t understand?

My Mum's mum is Nana to me and my brother, she chose this because her Mum was Nana to my Mum and she felt too young to be Granny at the time, my much younger cousins call her Granny. My Dad's Mum was Grandma just to be able to differentiate between her and Nana. I was in my late 20's before she told me she would have preferred to be Nanny, by which time it was too late.

We have a (deceased) granny then a grandma and also a nanna.

my SIL always wanted to be a Nonna but she’s a Naaaaaaaan with a heavy southern accent 🤣

I think it’s lovely. If I couldn’t have had granny I’d have chosen Oma.

Someone I know chose Nonna. No Italian connections whatsoever. She thought the other options made her sound too old. It just sounds pretentious to me.

I'm 57 and I had a Nanna and a Granny.

I now have grandchildren and they have a Granny, Nanny and Nanna.

It really has always been like this. Just because your experience has only been one way doesn't mean it has always been that one way for everyone.

I'd say read more, talk to more people, get a bit more general life experience before jumping to "plummeting towards the bottom".

I think it's MeeMaw 😅 sort of redneck country

True. I had two "older parent" generations before me, and both my sibling and I chose to have children in our 20s as a result, bucking the trend in our peer groups. There are advantages and disadvantages to both scenarios.

There will always be grannies across a spectrum of ages. My granny was 70 when I was born in 1953. My mum on the other hand was 56 when my son was born. There will always be women who have children in their 20s and younger grannies. It wouldn’t surprise me if the trend reverses at some point.

Seriously OP, either you have far too much time on your hands or are one of those people who isn't happy unless they have something to bitch and whine about.

Nana has been around for years, people can call themselves whatever they want and it makes no difference.

Unless your family is Italian why would your sister use Nonna rather than Nana?

Growing up I had Grandma and Nan.

My kids have Granny x2 and Nana x 1.

Each to their own.

You need to find a hobby!

But grandmothers are older nowadays? Many women are having their first children in their 30s, by choice. Their own mother's are likely to be well into their 60s. That isn't young, and is very near to the govt retirement age.
Grandmothers in their 50s will very soon be a remnant of the past in Western culture.

Granny? What is the world coming to!? It's grandma surely....