Young grandmother names!

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My 21 year old dd is making me a grandma just in time for my 40th birthday!
I'm happy to be nana (because Janice in Benidorm is my grandparent goal but my dd says she'll call the baby Coolio if I go for that) .
Does anyone go by anything less conventional than nan, granny etc?
I'm a bit excited!

I do like Grandmama; my DS and DIL chose for us, Granny for her mum and Nanna for me.

DS calls my mum Nan, she was 44 when he was born.

Granny or gran are also nice. Loads of options

In Wales we say Nain (pronounced nine) and Mam-gu (pronounced mam ghee)

Aww, congratulations! I'm 39 and have my first GC on the way, it's so exciting, isn't it?! DS and his lovely DP refer to me as the GC's Nonnina. I think it means "little grandmother" in Italian. I love it and can't wait to hear it from my GC!

My mum is “nanny Lynn” my Nan’s are “nanny Maggie” and “nanny socks” (don’t ask - Maggie is ones nickname and the other one is a name I came up with aged 4) my husbands mum is “granny” my husbands nans are “granny surname” and Nanna.
I personally like “nanny first name” it sounds much younger than granny or grandma.
Then we have “grandad nickname” “grandad other nickname” and “grandad surname” “grandad”

When I was pregnant, my StepMiL declined a name like Granny, Nanna, Grandma etc as she was quite young. She has never had children so didn't feel she should be a grandparent.

We told her not to be silly, she was already a grandparent whether she got the name or not! So she became GrandHerName eg GrandSarah (not actually her name). It has worked really well, as she still feels young, but has the authority of a Grandparent.

I became a grandma at the ripe age of 39. She calls me Gigi because she thinks I'm too young.

I am a foreigner, so it is not my circus or my monkeys, but 'Nana'/'Nan' vs 'Granny' is a social class marker, if that's a consideration for you, OP -- it's also why some posters have said that 'Nana' sounds 'rough' to them.

Your grandchild will name YOU

This. I remember my mother and MIL had a conversation about what they thought they should be called by our DS (first grandchild for my parents, first one for many years for my ILs) and I can't even remember what they came up with in the end because DS has called all four grandparents by their first names since he was able to talk.

Granny is a perfectly acceptable appellation, unless you belong to the section of the population that uses "Nanny" or "Nanna".
You will probably find that your grandchild has its own name for you at first, anyway, as Granny is quite hard to say.

Since when has "nana" been "rough"? I don't like "nan" or "nanny" but nana seems fine to me. Or should we all be using "grandmater"?

If I were a grandmother in my 40s (or even 50s or 60s) I would not want to be "granny". It conjures up pictures of an 80something year old knitting with white hair in a bun to me :)

My DC call their grandma ‘Mamma’ pronounced Mam-mar. Also I think GiGi sounds pretty cool and young.

You will find whatever you choose they will say what they can pronounce. I am Grandma but most of them called me Mammah attempting to say it. The recent one calls me Nonnah. If a name pops out you like you me stick with it

Also I would have a chat with the other grandmother so you don't choose the same name

My dgd calls me Nana Moo, as I always call her her name plus Moo she calls Dh Pops & dd’s Mil she calls Grandma as she already had GC when dgd was born & that’s what they called her.

I had 2 grandmas.

Dd1 had grandma, grandad (my parents) and GG (stands for great grandma, my grandma)

Dd2 has grandma, grandad (my parents), GG (my grandma), nan, pops (mil and her husband), gran X (mil's mil) and grandpa (fil, although we never see him so I'm not sure she even knows he's supposed to be grandpa).

A lot of the kids round here have Nana or nanny. I couldn't be nanny because to me that's a job not a family relationship.

I'm almost 40, and am very thankful that my DD is not making me a grandma yet. I would always choose to be grandma though, anything else sounds wrong in my family (although I respect dh's family doing it differently)

Oh dear, I'm quite amused at the insinuation that Nanna/Nan is lower class. I'm working class in my eyes (librarian with a masters). However my my mum and her mum were definitely middle class and they were still Nanna! Takes all sorts though.

My mum is Nanny and MIL is Mammar

Going back 20 years...
When ds was born.
First grandchild from exh. Asked his mum did she want to be nanny/granny and forename/surname/anything else?

She chose nannie.
Yes,that spelling. Even though she is man to her daughter's 3 kids.

We wanted something to distinguish grandparents for ds. He has "nanny ethel" as his dad's mum
"Nanny Elaine " as my mum
"Nanny sharon" or "grandmere " my step-mum.
Also great nan and great grandad.
And grumpy (my step dad). Nothing to do with his cheerfulness, his first granddaughter was trying to say grumpy.

Growing up, we had sever nanny-something.

Nanny London lived a long way away. (In london)
Nanny poodles had dogs.

I always wanted a pop. Or pops.

I am Mooma.

A friend of mine used to call his grandparents Nainy and Taivy (not sure if that's how he spelt it, rhymed with Tiny and Ivy) and I always thought it sounded lovely.

my mum became a grandma at 31 and my son has always called her nanna because my mum thought it sounded the youngest 😂

Oh dear, I'm quite amused at the insinuation that Nanna/Nan is lower class. I'm working class in my eyes (librarian with a masters). However my my mum and her mum were definitely middle class and they were still Nanna!

I'm not 'insinuating' anything -- it's a well-attested social class marker, like sofa/settee, living room/lounge etc. You don't get William and Harry talking about their nan the Queen, for instance.

My DM was in her forties when I made her a Gran and she goes by Nanna. It was the same for me growing up, my grandma’s were always Nanna because they felt too young to be Grandma .

Congratulations!

I've found that 'nana' is much more common in the North than the South. My Northern grandmother was Nana. Perhaps that's where the class thing comes from We're all rough oop North, tha knows.
Anyway, Nana is my favourite