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?

Working class northern here, and my grandmothers were both grandma, as was my mum to my kids. DH had nannies, and mil was nanny to our children.
But like some others here, to me nanny is a goat, and DM will always be the one and only grandma, so I am granny to my DGC.
If it's good enough for the queen it'll do for me 😄

I had a ‘Big Nanny’ and ‘Little Nanny’, which turned into Nan rather than Nanny as I got older.

My kids have a Nanny, Grandma and Nana as well as a Great Grandma :)

Britain. Grandparents called grandma and grandad

I called mine nanny and then nan as I got older. I used to hear a lot of the older generation insist on being called Grandma, Granny or Gran though for exactly the reason you've stated, because a nanny is a goat!
I don't think my nan would have suited being called a gran, to be honest

My grandmother would have fainted if I’d called her grandma or nan.

I’d never heard the use of nan until MN. To me a nanny is trained childcare.

My grandma is grandma/gran because her mum was known as Nan and she thought it could get confusing.

I don’t think either option is particularly ’posh’ or ‘cold’ though.

My grandma was always 'nanny' then as we got older, 'Nan' as is my mum to her grandchildren and now 'big nanny' to her great grand daughter, as is my sister to her grand daughter.
However my MIL is 'grandma' as she didn't like her 'nanny' so didn't want to be called that!
Suits us, as my kids have one nan/nanny and one grandma!

I have one grandmother, I call her Grandma. DC call her Grangran (her choice). They call my mum Grandma
Louise, and they called DHs late mum Grandma Kath. I think that was more to help distinguish between the two in general conversation, than out of preference.

Great to hear all your experiences.

@FrazzledMCPremenopausalWoman I'm a Kath and thinking about it I can't imagine being any of these words. Thankfully it'll never happen now unless I buy another cat and breed it. And then they wouldn't be able to say the words anyway. Maybe I'll have to breed parrots.

We called our grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. We usually added the last name if we were talking about them rather than to them (Grandma Jones v Grandma Smith).

We called our grandmothers Nanny Surname. Both born in the 19th century and one was in service- a scullery maid - so definitely not posh My mum is Nannie. I chose Grandma, however my DGD had other ideas and calls me a pet version of my real name. No- one else has ever called me this name so it is precious!
Loving hearing all the variations- all perfectly fine!

one was in service- a scullery maid - so definitely not posh

@Pollypudding my 'Grandma' was also in service and then in later life worked in a launderette. She wasn't well off but she had definite ideas about what she believed to be common and what wasn't if you see what I mean.

My grandmother - I only knew one of them, the other was dead before I was born - was Nan/Nanny. I never confused her with someone employed privately to care for a child, as the latter only existed in books as far as I was concerned. My brother's wife is now Nanny to their grandchildren.

Always Nan\Nanny in our family,my Nan was called Grandma by the great grandchildren.

Coincidently my great gran was Nanna [surname]

My mum requested to be called Granny which I found really surprising. To me it sounds so old fashioned and like a tiny grey haired woman (which she isn't). Her choice, and that's what the kids call her, but I think Grandma is much better.

I think it's like any name and you associate it with who you know/ knew with that name. My older DSIL had DCs first and my DM became Nana which was what a small child called a banana ime. Her DM was Granny. My DGM was Granny but not very close to my DM - hence I wanted neither name and was Dgrandma.

My mam is Grandma (short vowel 'a' at the end) to my lads. I know loads of Nanas, Grandmas, Nannys, Grannies, Nanwas and Noonas. Grandmas aren't the most frequently occurring, but they're not an endangered species.

Nanan here to my grandchildren.

We are a "nan" family. My own nan is 90 and says grandma makes her sound like an old lady

DS differentiates by calling my mum Nan and my nan Nanna. I'm Nanna Viennese to my DSC's children. I think all families have their preferred lingo, it's not class based, but personally I think being a 43 year old Gran wouldn't suit me.

@me4real

one was in service- a scullery maid - so definitely not posh

@Pollypudding my 'Grandma' was also in service and then in later life worked in a launderette. She wasn't well off but she had definite ideas about what she believed to be common and what wasn't if you see what I mean.

My Victorian/Edwardian Grandma was in service (landed up as lady's maid to the Queen of Spain) and had very clear ideas of what was common or not. Snobbier than the poshest of Sloanes.

X factor wannabes are doing it for their Nans.
Graduates thank Grandma for helping to fund their Masters.

In our family we have a Grandma, Gran, Nana and Nanny, and Grandpa, Grandad and Pop. All equally common where I'm from.

My nanny insisted that granny would make her feel old and my granny insisted that nanny would make her feel old. Both of them died when I was a young child.

My grandma was, well, grandma. I’d never heard of Nan until I was in my thirties, and thought it was hideous, and, sorry, yes, I know, I’m a snob, but common. Im now grandma, or more accurately “gangma”