Alternative grandmother names

[luckyladygal]

Due to become a grandmother in a few months and not sure what name I would like to be known as ? Tell me what your grandkids call you ?

Go down to a card shop and pick something that has several options for cards. Grannie/Granny were very limited.

I call my grandmas Granny and Mamma (pronounced mom-mar)

You could always pick one of the formal names then see how DGC pronounce it. I know someone who calls her grandparents (both of them!) Gary as that’s how she said it when she was little. I think she got some funny looks at school when she was little and said “oh, Gary is picking me up today”! I also know of a gia and a mar.

My mum wanted to be grandmama.... well when tiny the kids couldn't say it and now older they just shriek with laughter and call her posh. They call her Granny. My stepdad is Grandpa.

Both my parents and in-laws are Nanny and Grandad and we just say "we're going to Nanny Mary's or Nanny Joan's" to differentiate but then the kids just call them Nanny and Grandad when they see them. When my youngest was very little he couldn't say Grandad so called them "Gra-ra" 😂

My mum said from the minute I told her I was pregnant that she was not being called Grandma/Granny as it's made her sound too old (she was only in her fifties to be fair!) we grew up calling our grandmothers Nanny and then just Nan once we were older.

We have three Grandads (my dad, stepdad and FIL), one Grandma (MIL) and a Grandma/Mamaw (my mum).

My DD can say Grandma to my mum but for some reason Grandad is always DadDad (which I absolutely can't fault on logic).

I only had one as a child and she was Nana. My DC have two; one Nana, one Granny.

Nain (pronounced Nine) is Welsh for Grandmother
Mam-gu (something a bit like mam-ghee) is Welsh for Grandmother in South Wales.

I’m Granny, and so is the other granny. We are identified if needed by Granny plus Name.

Granny and Gumpa - hangover from when DS was tiny and couldn't say Grandpa.

We had Nanny and Granny. Friend is Gaga...

I had a Nanna & a Granny. My dcs had Nanna & Nanny.

Pronounced Yia Yia. Not ya ya. With emphasis on the second syllable.

Me too 😊

I too am going to become a grandparent in a few motnhs time!

I plan to be Nanna or Nanny and my husband will be Papa (Scottish)

My own parents were Granny and Grandad and My husband’s parents were granny and Papa (but we distinguished the granny by calling her granny scotland)

I can’t wait to be someone’s Nanna / Nanny 🥰

Us too

People around me with alternative names (some are just common in other languages) are uti, nonna, mimi, fammu, mummu, pappa, gigi

Thank you all for the suggestions, some food for thought here

My children called their Grandmothers ..Grandma and then their christian name .Sadly they didn’t have grandfathers.

In my family we have Grandma, Granny, Nana, Abuelita (Spanish speaking). I'm also quite keen on modifiers like Grannie Island or Grandma Mainland.

I have a friend who is called Nonnie, which is nice.
My kids called my parents Grannie and Papa when they were younger. When they grew up they called my mum G-maw, which she loved.
I never knew either of my grans. They both died before I was born but my parents always referred to them as Grannie Mums maiden name and Grannie Dad's surname.

My kids had a Mamaia.

I had an Oma/Savta.

And a Bubbe!

My mum was GMa, because that’s how she used to sign her texts off, bless her.

I would just use my actual name I think