Grandma first name or last name?

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Wanting to try get baby to recognise names etc so with him having 2 grandmas and both being known as 'Grandma', would they be called Grandma June & Grandma Sue or Grandma Smith & Grandma Jones for example?

Ds has lots of grandparents all the females have different names but all males are grandad we have a range of grandad first name/nickname grandad + wife/partners name as sometime he just doesn't know which grandparents we are talking about

Granny & Nana here, although my DH gets easily confused ! Nana had been named Nana by previous grandchildren and requested to be just her name, so we call her Nana at all times and buy her Nana or Nanna things Always respects your MILs wishes However my DS seems to call her Nanny. So really it's Nanny & Granny.

Growing up I had grandma surname but find that too formal, my grandchildren refer to me and my mum both grandma but then followed by our dogs names 😄 add that's how they distinguished who they meant so I'm grandma Tink and my mum is grandma Milo.

My Great Grandparents were surnames, Grandparents were first names. No idea why. My DC just call theirs Nan/Grandad. Not sure if they even know their first names .

We use surnames as both have the same firstname, it's Grandads in our case as we have a Grandma and a Granny. It never gets used to their face, its only when we're talking about them at home so we know which one we mean. To be honest, the DCs just say Grandad and we know generally know which one they're talking about from context, or we might ask "is that Grandad Surname1 or Grandad Surname2?"

I had Gran and Nanna growing up. Granda and Granpa.
My kids have granny and granpa and gran and granda
Plenty of names

Bonker and long way granny. Granny Horse.

We have grandma and nanny. It's just worked out that way because its what both prefer. DSS calls grandma that already but my mum hates the name and prefers nanny. Do they both need to be grandma?

My Dad’s Mum was very small, only about 4ft 11, whereas my Mum’s Mum was a fair bit taller. So we had Big Nana and Little Nana.

Bonker and long way granny. Granny Horse.
A bit niche

My DS has Grandma and Nana but two Grandads. At the moment we call them River Grandad and Seaside Grandad to differentiate (both into fishing and conservation and have very similar first names 😂) but we’ll see what develops as he becomes more verbal.

It’s my grandparents that we haven’t worked out names for yet!

We have Gran and Nan.

Why not ask the grandmas in question what they'd like to be called? That's what I did and it sorted it out nicely without anyone being lumbered with a moniker they didn't want. The fact that DS1 couldn't pronounce one of them and that grandma is now known as a garbled version of her choice is by the by!

I had two Grandma Fistnames and two Great-Grandma Surnames when I was little Maybe because of that, "Grandma Surname" seems more formal and perhaps for an older generation.

DS didn't get to meet his Great-Grandmas but has two Grandma Firstnames (both just called "Grandma" unless they need to be differentiated) and a Granny.

I'd let the grandmas choose! My mum ended up being Nana, not sure how but she doesn't mind. And by the joy of a bilingual household, DH's mum is Farmor. It works out nicely!

Mine just call their Grandmas Grandma .

If they aren't around, for clarity, they are Grandma Last Name. Or Great Grandma.

With my grandparents we did it with the surnames

We tried to have Granny Firstnames but once DD was talking she started using big Granny and wee Granny. My mum was wee granny and loved it, mil not so much.
Just remembered when I told DM I was pregnant one of the first things she said was, don't ever call me Granny surname, I'll keep picturing your Granny, my mil"

We use Grandma Firstname or Gran Firstname. They could have just been Grandma and Gran, but there were stepchildren among cousins on one side who already referred to one of the grandparents by first name, so it was a no-brainer to have the first name in there somewhere on that side, and then it made sense to include the first name on the other side too.

My father was Grandad Firstname and DH's is known as something that was originally DD1's original attempt to say "Grandpa Firstname" but doesn't really sound anything like "Grandpa Firstname".

Granny mainland and Granny Island

We have Grandma and Granny.

We used Nanny Surname and then used Nanny Forename for step grandparents

My dm and dsm are both grandma, my mum is just grandma and sm is grandma first name if talking about her, when they're with her (the grandma's are never together) again she's just grandma

When we are with the grandparents it is just granny and grandpa. Only if we speak about them we add the surname. My nieces said granny/grandpa surname when talking to them which I always found as bit strange.

Luckily it is very rare that DD’s grandparents meet, they live to far away from each other and we live aboard from them so no possibility to confuse as if they would be all of them in one room.

I have a nana surname and a nana first name (e.g. nana Smith and nana Betty). It's weird because nana surname is much friendlier and more involved than nana first name was!