To want my adult niece and nephew to call my Aunty Emma?

[egaley]

AIBU? Am I old fashioned?

I have an adult nephew and niece (28 and 26). They have always called me Aunty Emma.

We were having a big family meal and my cheeky nephew called me just “Emma” when he wanted to say something. I corrected him and asked him why he called me Emma, my name is Aunty Emma!

I'm 54 & still call my aunts & uncles as this, feels odd to do otherwise. My 3DC, teen & adults call all my siblings auntie & uncles still.
Occasionally youngest DB calls our mum by her name just to wind her up

i am in my 50s and would call my aunt and uncle Auntie x and Uncle x.

I disagree entirely. I am in my 60's and am extremely close to a couple of my aunts. I dropped the titles when I was a teenager, at their suggestion. I see and speak to them often, they are more like older sisters - the oldest is only ten years older than me. In our family, the ones who are called auntie, tend to be the ones we are not close to and don't really stay in touch with. Children in the family do call aunties and uncles by the titles, in fact they call my mum nanny even though she's actually their great grandmother.

Aunties and Uncles all the way here!

DH and I also call each other's aunts and uncles Auntie Agnes, Uncle David etc.

I'm nearly 50, and still refer to my Aunt's and Uncles as 'Auntie 'insert name' and 'Uncle 'insert name'!! It's just something I have always done, and never given it much thought. I don't think any of them would actually be offended if I called them by their first name, and missed off the Aunt or Uncle part. I guess it's just a habit, that I've never stopped!!

Yep same. It would be considered massively disrespectful to drop the titles in my family.

We actually do use the Cousin title in my family 😅 I call my mum's cousins Cousin Anne, Cousin Sarah etc.

My three year old son uses it for his cousins too but that sort of happened by accident and wasn't intentional.

I'm well over 40, and I still use "Aunt" and "Uncle". It would have felt odd to suddenly change that. My 60+ parents still refer to their 80+/90+/deceased aunts and uncles as "Aunt X" or "Uncle Y".

I had an uncle in the year below me at school, so no, I never called him Uncle Pete. That would have been really weird.