What to call grandmothers?

Oh, and we sometimes refer to the two direct sets of GPs by the aunties that still live at home, e.g. Grandma & Grandad Laura and Grandma & Grandad Becky

We asked them. Four out of the five sets wanted to be grandma and grandad!

So now we have:
Grandma and Grandad (my mum and stepdad)
Grandad Name and Nanny Name (my dad and stepmum)
Grandma Name & Grandad Name (my grandparents)
Grandma and Grandad (MIL and FIL)
Grandma Name and Grandad Name (GMIL and GFIL). This last one was only decided recently, GMIL was quite insistent that she only really wanted to be Grandma, so we had a couple of years of them signing cards with a different name every time, depending which one of them had written in it! The rest of the family have decided together that they will be known by first names too now, as calling them all 'other grandma and grandad' was getting somewhat confusing!

My cousins boy used to call his great- grandmother 'Old Nanny' I think she was ok with it - at least it was honest.

My mum will carry on the title and be 'Nanny'. I love it, it's cosy.
Dunno what MIL will be, I suspect she will be rather posher 'Grandma'.

My paternal Scottish grandparents were Granda and Grandma, and my maternal English ones were Nana and Grampa. My children call my mum Nana now (and they call her mum, who's still with us at 98, Nana-Nana).

squoosh.

I called my grans Gran 'surname' so both were Gran but differentiated by the surname e.g. Gran Smith and Gran Jones. DH calls both his Gran but differentiates by using their first name after it e.g. Gran Dot and Gran Mary. I used Grandpa and dh uses Grandad.

Dh's mum doesnt like Gran, Granny, etc so gets called Nanny by the kids (Still feels weird to me to say it though). My mum is just Gran to the children. Dh's dad is Grandad and my dad is dead so never got called anything.

curlew we have "great-grandma who sits down" (right side paralysis following stroke) and "great-grandma who stands up". Both g-gma to their faces. DS1 came up with the distinction at age 2, and very apt we thought it too.

We had big grandma in the big house and little grandma in the little house
Both just grandma to their faces.

We let the individual grandparents choose what they wanted to be called.

Infact, all very simple: all grandmothers are nana, all grandfathers are grandad. Surnames used to distinguish between them if need be.

Great-grandmothers: one grandma, one nana
Great-grandfathers: one grandad great; one grandad

Mil is Grandma FIL was Grandad (though dd1 called Him Grandfar)

my mother is Mormor
Step dad Bedstefar

my dad Morfar

Danish way to do it.

I suspect I will become grandma... Not 100% sure though. Kinda nice to stick with mormor/farmor and keep the Danish.

I'm a Nana or Nan if they're in a hurry, I had two Nanas, my girls have a Grandma and a Gran. Quite like the Italian Nonna though

Nanny Two Dogs sounds like a mafia granny, kind of like Jimmy Five Guns.

My mum is Scottish. She asked to be called 'Nana'.
Dh's mum has been called 'Nanny Seaside' by all her latest grandchildren. She used to be 'Nanny Two Dogs', by the oldest grandchildren, but then the dogs died and she moved to the seaside , so the youngest grandchildren now refer to her as 'Nanny Seaside'.

We asked. DM chose Granny. MiL chose Gran.

We got told (nicely though) by both dm and dmil that they wanted to be called granny and nana. :)

We have a Nana & Nickname & a Grandma.

My DM (Grandma) also thinks that Nana is not posh, also because it was the name of the dog in Peter Pan

We have a Nanny and a Grandma.

Ours became Granny & Grandad 4 and Granny & Grandad 8 after their house numbers!

Grandma and granddad. MUL oddly sent a birth card for oldest saying 'nana' which exh had never ever used for his grandparents. We just continued to say 'grandma' and she got the message. Under no circumstances would they be using that, it just doesn't sound right to either myself or ex.

My children's grandparents are:

Gran and Gramps (my parents)
Nana and Grandpa (DH's parents)

When I was growing up, my mum's parents were Grandma and Grandpa, my dad's parents were Ga-Ga and Grandpa.

Ga-Ga apparently came from my older sister when she was a toddler and couldn't say Grandma and it stuck!

We have grandads, a granny and a grandma.
Both my DM and Mil chose their own but to their horror 2yr old dd has started calling both nana. They keep suggesting we are encouraging this we are.

We asked MIL and my DM what they would like to be called - luckily they chose Nana & Granny so no confusion but a friend told her MIL that SHE could not stand Nana and therefore the MIL was not ever to be called Nana - she had notions that "Nana" was not posh!! IMO it's up to the granparent and grandchild and not to the notions of a parent - they get to chose what they are called.

I had gran and papa and nana when growing up. When I had DDs my Mum was very definite that she didn't want to be Nana and asked to be called gran or grandma. We went with gran. MIL just called herself nana. All happy! We're Scottish too, hence Papa.

I had Grannies growing up and would struggle to use the word 'Nanny', think it's awful.