Anyone else's Grandma....

[me4real]

I happened to see this mentioned somewhere presumably as a joke, but my nan insisted on being called Grandma, as she said nan was a goat etc etc.

I hadn't heard the above reason until my uncle mentioned it a while back. Also presumably she thought it common.

I always thought it was sooo formal - quasi-Victorian, although she will've been born in about 1915 or something. She died in the early 90s. I don't recall ever challenging the status quo.

She wasn't well off financially or anything.

Anyone else?

I am Grandma for exactly that reason. Nanny is a goat. Nan, Gran and granny are old lady handles.
.......Though its evolved to "Mamarr C" now

Granny and Grandma are more middle class. Nan/Nanny working class. Nanny lower middle.

*Nanna lower middle

I'm American and called grandma though my 3 daughter's laughingly call me mammy.. Don't know why, we don't live in the south.

I agree that it's one of those things that can be quite regional.

My children have a Grandma and a Granny - both chose what they preferred to be called. Both based in Australia but UK born and I think their choices reflected their own mother's choices of terminology.

I had a Granny (UK) and my (paternal) great-granny was a Grandma - didn't really have a relationship with my paternal grandmother.

My grandchildren call me Nanny and their other grandmother Nana whilst their grandaddy is grandpa, peppa pigs influence on that one 🙄 I know of a grandmother who told her grandchildren to call her by first name, found that strange 😳

A nanny is a female goat, sounds daft to me.

Granny here. When I hear nanny it makes me think of King Thistle shouting 'naaanny!'

Always Grandma for my side of the family and Granny for my husband's.

My Mum's Grandma was Nanna and when she went to the Grammar school people thought she had a Nanny. So we always called our grandparents Grandma and Grandad.
My husbands family were Granny and Granfer.
My children call my Dad Gramps which I hear quite a lot.

Grandma reminds me of little old ladies who’d wear their hair in a bun. I’m still struggling coming up with the name I want to be called a year later

What an absolutely horrible judgemental thread!

My paternal grandad was a widower for years after my DB and I were born, so we had a 'Grandma' who was my DM's DM. Her husband was also grandad, but differentiated by being referred to as 'Grandma and Grandad' or 'grandma's grandad'
Then when I was 10, Grandad remarried and his new wife wanted to be called Grandma
We renamed my DM's DM Nanna as that was what my cousins called her.
My DM is now a Nanna as she deemed Grandma too old-sounding and as others have said, a Nanny is a goat

Is nana from the Italian nonna?

@bellocchild

Is nana from the Italian nonna?

An earlier post mentioned the similarities between Nana, Nonna (Italian) Nanni (Indian) Nain (Welsh)......and possibly more.

Grandma was the name my kids used for my mother. I never really knew mine. Nan is my late aunt's name (short for Nancy), so no it was never used. Grannie?

Hate Nanny but it’s the cultural norm here (Norfolk) so my children are calling their local grandmother Nanny. My Mum is Nana.

My MIL who is tiny and Irish has always been grandma. Everybody calls her it. We owned pubs for many years and her and grandpa used to come and stay a few days most weeks to help out with our 3 boys. All our staff, customers, the boys and their friends, their teachers etc called her grandma. She is now 92, and my boys in their 20’s, and all their pals still call her grandma. She even had one of our staff who went on to join the police pull up over the road from her in town one day and yell out of the window “hey grandma can I give you a lift home”. That one stopped the traffic. She says the day she held her first grandson in her arms was one of the best days of her life. It’s great. The boys took her to see the latest Marvel film last Sunday as we couldn’t make it for dinner. My mum was nanny. Sadly she died a few years ago but her relationship was very different. Lovely but more distant, as she had other grandchildren who lived just round the corner, so naturally she was closer emotionally to them.

@OakPine

What an absolutely horrible judgemental thread!

I know, totally baffled about the hate, especially for nanna. But that's what you come to expect on here. Totally irrational hatred for the most benign choices. In my family most are nannas.

It's all about individual perceptions, I always thought granny was for an older relative but that's probably because the person I called granny was actually my great grandmother.

Then MIL chose to be a granny when she became a grandmother, even though she was under 40. But totally her choice if that's what she wanted to be, likewise grandmas and nannas.

Bothy grandmas (now in their 90s) are grandmas and it would never have occurred to me as a child that a grandma could have had another name as all my friends had grandmas too. A nanny was someone paid to look after us as small children (although we called her by her Christian name rather than calling her "Nanny"). Funnily enough though both my mother and my mother in law insist on being Granny, which is a nightmare as I have to explain which Granny I mean whenever I mention one of them to my little boys!

both my not bothy grandmas, although I do love a good bothy as well.

I had a Nanna and a Granny.

My Nanna was chilled and didn't seem to care, but in South Wales, it was the norm..

My Gran always said "A Nanny gets paid, I do what I do for love".

My GC have three sets of GPS, Nanny and Granddad, Nanna and Granddad and Granny and Grumpy.

We are all called by our preferred name.

I'm Nanna Derkle, the other Grandma is Nanna her name. My Mum was Grandma to some of the grandkids and Mumma to the others. My Dad is Poppy to everyone.

We say nannan!

I had a 'Granny'. My DM has always said that she doesn't want to be nan or nanny as she wasn't a goat. She is 'Granny' to my nephews but called deedee by my 3 ( no one really knows how she became deedee). MIL is known as Granny to all her grandchildren.

I called them 'gran'