Grandparent names. What are you or would you want to be called?

[PurplePenguins]

A friend is going to be a GP at the end of March and we were talking about grandparents names. My niece has a baby and my DSis and Bil are Nanna and Pops, other GP are Nanny and Grandpa. My mum and dad have always been Grandma and Grandad so are still Grandma and Grandad. The chat got me thinking about what I would be called when I become a GP. I dont want to be a nanny (I worked as one once) but don't know what I would want to be called. What are you called or what would you like to be called?

I'm Mema to my grandchildren

Although i cant see it happening too soon, it could. DS1 is 25 and recently moved in with his fiancee. I dont see why it's weird to choose your GP name. How else are you going to introduce yourself to your GC? I chose to be Mum so called myself Mum so my DC knew who I was. My parents chose my official name but I chose the name I go by now, a shortened version (much to my mum's disgust as "people will think your a boy!").

I agree Nanny sounds like staff or a goat. Gran sounds old but maybe that's because my Great GM was gran and was a litlle white haired old woman.

Some people want such bizarre things though - why a word from a culture that you have no connection with? Do you give no fucks about the playground conversion that goes:
"why do you call your grandma Abuela?"
"I have no idea, she's just weird and won't let me call her granny or Nana."

If the answer was "because she's Spanish" it would make sense, but "because she likes to think she's eccentric/ can't accept that she's grandparent age" ...

Mema might be cute from a toddler but is also teasing fodder for a school age child.

Nobody would demand their children call them Anja when it's not their name and they have no Hungarian connection, so why would people try to enforce titles they have no connection to when they become grandparents?

Introducing yourself with a nickname is different to plucking a random name from another culture or a random sound and introducing yourself as that!

We're Nonna and Nonno.
DP's names are Grampy and Gran or gramps and granny or gee gee
In laws were granny X and Grampy X although mil wanted to be called grandmama over my dead body 😳

First GC due in April.
I pondered this as I'm not keen on nanny and felt too young for granny or grandma but I've decided on nana as similar to what blueskies says, when a child tells the teacher that Abuela or whoever is picking them up from school, they won't have a clue.

We let our mothers choose their own, DH's mum is Grandma, my mum decided to make one up, and I hate it. She knows I don't like it, and I get embarrassed when she tells people.
If it came from my child organically, I wouldn't mind, but it's being forced. And she expects me to get specially made cards that day the name instead of the usual Nana/Grandma.

I'd want to be called nanny when they're young and then nan. Grandad for dh

Nanny or nanna. Grandma would make me feel older I think .

I'd be Grandma I think. Gran sounds incredibly old to me and I can't stand Nanna/Nanny. (MIL is Nanna, DH's choice, just increases my dislike of her tbh)

Can’t bare any of them tbh, especially Granny, Grandma and Nanny, think that only leaves Nana unless I can make something up.

I like Nana

My grandmothers were both Nana Surname when talking about them and just nana when talking to them. My mum decided to be Nanny for some reason and MIl is gran. While it is some time in the future I expect to be Nana.

I think I'd like to be Grandma - it sounds cosier than Granny. Not keen on the other standard versions.

DMIL is Grannie (is this spelling a Scottish thing or a posh thing?). My mum wanted to be Grandma but ended up being called a made-up name - her first grandchild couldn't say Grandma and came up with something that sounds totally different, and now all the other grandchildren have adopted it.

I am Grandma. Dgs calls his other dgm +dggm by their first names.
Feels like a proper worthwhile title to be Grandma ime!!

Youreameanonemrgrinch you're DM sounds hard work 😲

Not yet but we’ll hopefully be Grandma and Gramps or Grumps. Ours called my husband’s parents Gar and Pappa.

I am gran. DiL and son asked what i would prefer when she was pregnant and gran just seemed nice and simple.
It was the last of the names gs mastered 😁 Grandads, nana, mummy, daddy - no problem. I was gangan until he was about 2 years old, now, I am firmly 'gran' and i love it!

If you are a youthful gorgeous grandmother Glamma sounds fun.

Had a look at this site, some lovely names here.

considerable.com/grandparent-names/

I'll be gran, like my gran was and my stepmum it sounds the youngest of all the names to me! Dh wants to be grandpa. Dc are teens so hopefully not for a few years yet.

I’m Nana Dh is Pops, as my dd’s Mil was already Granny/Granma too older Gc I didn’t mind either really , helps with dgd not getting confused who’s who.

My dad is “dandan” to ds (17 months) Dm is grandma. But ds can’t say that yet.

@blueskiesovertheforest no I actually don't give any fucks about the playground conversations & not just because the chances that I'll ever be picking any grandchildren of mine up from school are slim to none considering that I've got another 30 years to work & at 70 the last thing I'll want to do is the fucking school run!

I may not be Abuela I may be something entirely different when the time comes but it certainly won't be gran, grandma, granny, nana or nanny & it's not because I can't accept that I'm grandmother age (I'm well aware that at 40 with an almost 19yo it's a possibility it could happen anytime) I just fucking hate all of those options.

I don't have children but DH has children and grandchildren from a previous marriage. When the parents asked me what I wanted the grandchildren to call me I told them to use my name! I don't think of them as my grandchildren and I'm too young to be grandma etc!

I had grandad and nana and grandpa and grandma. My mum is nana and my Mil is grandma (both dad's are grandad). I'd like to be grandma but my dd, who's only 3, has already said she wants me to be nana to her kids (oddly we've already discussed it haha), which I think is because she's closest to my mum of her grandparents