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 nan hated being called nanny because its "a paid servant" haha. What a snob. I did love her though.

Around here they’re all usual. I’m a granny, so is Gdcs’ other granny, ditto were dds’ GMs.

I don’t much like grandma - only because to me it sounds older and fatter than granny!

I had a Gran and a Grandma. Neither were posh (northern mill towns).

I grew up in the south west and everyone at my school had an 'our Nan'. My mum thought this was lovely so decided to be Nan when our kids were born, although they usually call her Nana.

Both mines are Grandmas and when my Mother became a "Grandma" at 39 (not from me haha) she was still Grandma, despite how old it sounds haha.

We are Granny and Grampa. Nan, nanny we don't like.

I have a Grandma and a Granny.

I don't think there is anyone wrong with any name as long as the family agrees what people will be called.

Although my Grandma apparently rejected "Nan" for being too common!!!

My Mum is Nannie, my MIL is Nanny and my Nan was Grandma to my children. Calling her Grandma differentiated between the generations for us.

Both of mine were Granny Surname, which was the inherited title on both sides of the family, Irish and Londoners, both working class. My dc have a Granny (my side) and a Grandma (dad's side, who is Welsh). DC had a childminder who was Nanny Firstname, her choice. I believe that everyone called her that, including her own grandchildren. Her husband was Uncle Firstname.

Yup. My Grandma said this exact thing. Not Gran, not Granny, it was Grandma. We had a... complicated... relationship with her. I was much, much closer to my lovely Nan.

My husbands family is Scottish and he uses Granny or Gran. He called his lovely Grandad Papa and I thought that was nice.

DD uses Nanny for my mum and Nana for DH's mum.

My Grandma insisted on Gran, Nanny was common (despite her being working class) and Granny made her sound old (despite her being in her 80s when I jokingly used it)

We did have a Nan, she was my great-grandmother. I think she became Nan when her daughter took over Granny, not sure though. The other great-grandmother was Great Granny (the others were already dead before I was born but would probably also have been Great Granny Surname, judging by the rest of the pattern).

Mommar (spelt momma) is the norm in my family. I'm going to be grandma to start with then go with however my future grandchildren say it!

Grandma and Grandad here, both myself with my grandparents, DH and his Grandparents and now our children with their grandparents.

Doesn't seem common though, most people I know use Nan/Nanny

MIL insisted on phonetically "Gramma" as that's what her mother was called and what her other grandchildren called her- she bagged it early on before my DM could. But I always spell it Grandma on cards as that's what she writes mostly.
I didn't like her bagging it to stop my DM using it, and she also said she didn't like Nana which is what my DM chose.

I'm a grandma to my two grandsons. Nan or nanny never appealed.

Grandma and granny in our family.

Both DH and I called our grandparents grandma and grandad. Our children have 2 grandmas. All my friends and family use 'grandma'.

I'm not a fan of nan at all tbh. To me the name grandma conjures up sweetness, cuddles, safety, happiness - the opposite of formality.

'Grandma' and 'Granny' are quite correct and most are called that and happy with it.

My Granny was a granny because she thought it was posher and less goat but my other grandmother was a Nanny. My Granny's mum was a Nanny to my Granny's dc though. My mum's a Nanny to my dc. DH's mum is a Granny but she is old money posh so maybe my Granny was right and my mum's family are dead common

Mine were both Gran (followed by surname) to distinguish between them in conversation.

My friend has a gran and a grandma.

Someone else had a young gran who didn’t want called gran, so she was called mammy M. To distinguish between the real mammy and herself (the gran).

My mother was Grandma to my children and MIL was Nan. I’m Granny to my grandchildren. The names just happened.

Nan is common

I don't think the others are necessarily posh as all sorts have granny, Granma and nana.

posh grannys take on a nick name - yo yo, kanga, bizzy

I always disliked ‘nanny’ until very little Gdd called me that, until she could say ‘granny’. Little Gds did the same. From them it sounded 😍.
Still waiting to see what very little Gdd2 will manage first.

I use nana. No one likes Nan, grandma, gran, granny etc in my family.

It seems I was wrong thinking this was a regional thing.
Grandma, Granny were south and midlands, North was Nan. Nana.
Nanny meant paid help.
It seems more random. There, have I added confusion rather than clarity.