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?

My mum was in her late 30's when first GC came, my grandparents were still alive.

She wanted to be nanny as she felt it sounded young. My GP were granny and grandad.

Made it easier having different names.

We went with Grandma. Our family always said
Nanny sounded like a hired help, didn’t like the sound of Granny as you imagined a blue rinse and glasses.

Both mine are nan and nanny when I was younger. My DS's have a nanny, grandma and nana. I think Grandma is quite formal personally. But I guess it depends on what you're used to!

I am firmly middle class, had no idea nan was 'common'...

I had a grandma and a grandmother! My grandmother was very Victorian, my grandma wasn't.

My own mum is a Nanna as I didn't want her to be Grandma.
My MIL is Grandma-name.
My dad has a totally random title which my son called him when he could first speak and it's stuck.....a nightmare for cards as we have to get them made.

My friend has a Grandmama and had Grandpapa. It turned out that Grandpapa was titled so the name fits! It wasn't something I'd heard said in everyday conversation before.

Wasn't Nanny a throw back to a time children would be raised by nannies? And Nannies were affectionately remembered. Or am I remembering the BBC series Nanny with Wendy Craig?

I had a Nana and a Grandma who objected when I shortened it to Granny. She said it made her feel very old!

I called mine nain.

My mum was naini to my kids

Both of mine were Nans, or Nannys (Nannies?) Neither liked grandma, so that's the way it worked out.

Although my Mums mum refused to be Nana (as its the dog in Peter Pan was her reasoning)

Not many Grandma's or Grandmother's in my local area. Most people are nan or nanny.

My grandmas were working class Scottish women born in the 1920s. My mum and MIL both currently grandmas were born in the 1950s.

I don't hate Nan and then granny is elderly.

My parents made up names for my kids. They are Nonnie (derivative of the Italian for grandma) and Papa. They didn't feel old enough to be granny etc. I love that my girls have a Nonnie, a Papa, a Granny and a Grandad 😊

Grandma on both sides of my family. In my mind Nanny is someone who is paid to look after children.

My grandmas were both grandmas, and my mum and MIL are both grandmas too. My eldest does occasionally refer to my mum as granny, which she hates

I had a nanna and a gran, my dc have a nanny and grandma, it's just what people prefer to be called!

I wasn’t lucky enough to remember both Grandma’s, but when I had my DC, it was useful for them to distinguish between the two of them, so my DM was Nanny, and DH’s DM was Grandma. If either had been at all snobbish about the Nanny term, they’d both have been called “Grandma Firstname”...

I’m Grandma to my four step grandsons. First one already had Nanny (his dads mum who already had grandchildren) and Nan (his mums mum) and I preferred Grandma as my mum is Grandma to my children. I don’t think it’s old fashioned at all.

I had 4 Nanna’s growing up that was then shortened to Nan as I got older.

Mil is Granny, Dm is Grammy

The only one I don’t like is Nanny as to me it’s either a job or a goat!

But surely the GM gets to choose what she is called and it’s no one else’s business

My Nan was born in 1925 and always liked being called 'Nan' over 'Grandma' as she didn't like anything she thought was too fussy or formal

Those of you who don't use 'grandma' what do you call grandad?

Genuinely interested!

My DM and MiL were Granny, and so am I.

I don’t like Grandma, to me it sounds older and fatter than Granny - daft, I know.

I don’t really like Nan/Nanny, but Nanny sounded very sweet when both elder Gdcs used it before they could say Granny.

I think it’s a family thing. Both of mine were called grandma so my children called theirs grandma

Never known Nan as a name for grandmother

Yeah right.

My step-gran always insisted on being referred to as Grandmother, I just called her by her name as she was NOT a grand anything to me in any way, shape or form and she was certainly not nice to my mother (her step daughter).

I am a Grandma, not Nan, Nannie, Nanna, just plain old Grandma.

Officially I am Granny.

But I also answer to:

Gan

Gans

Ganny

Both my grandmothers were called grandma. My children call my mum and my MIL grandma. Interestingly my husband called his grandmother nanny, but my mil preferred to be called grandma. Fine by me, but ironic that she made her own mother a nanny but didn’t choose it for herself!

I remember hearing friends refer to their grandmothers as nanny. I tried it out and my grandmother told me that she wasn’t a goat!