What is wrong with Granny?

[Jane958]

Both my grannies were Granny.
My mother was Granny.
My sister has chosen Nana, why?
Is this an indication of how far we are plummeting towards the bottom?

Someone I know chose Nonna. No Italian connections whatsoever. She thought the other options made her sound too old. It just sounds pretentious to me.

I think it’s lovely. If I couldn’t have had granny I’d have chosen Oma.

We have a (deceased) granny then a grandma and also a nanna.

my SIL always wanted to be a Nonna but she’s a Naaaaaaaan with a heavy southern accent 🤣

My Mum's mum is Nana to me and my brother, she chose this because her Mum was Nana to my Mum and she felt too young to be Granny at the time, my much younger cousins call her Granny. My Dad's Mum was Grandma just to be able to differentiate between her and Nana. I was in my late 20's before she told me she would have preferred to be Nanny, by which time it was too late.

Yes tho, I don’t understand?

My mum thought ‘nan’ or any of its variants was terribly low class.

I think I’d like to be known as granny. I had 2 grannies and I think it’s very sweet. Plus, I’m not a goat.

Why surely? Each to their own I dislike grandma, nanny, granny, I'm.Nana!
In fact I wouldn't mind being just my name.....

I had two Nanas and my kids also have Nanas. What’s wrong with Nana? What did her husband call his grandparents ? It might be that the reason.

I feel the same when people talk about their kids.

Sounds like you’re the snob. There is nothing wrong with Nana. As I posted previously, I’ve always had Nana and my kids too. To suggest that people who name their grandparents something different to you means they are below you is so insulting.

ps. You are not royal, so doesn’t really matter what the Queen does.

My DS had Grandma Marion, Nana B, Nana Flower5, Grandma O, - my DMIL, my DM, my GM, and my two DGMs..

My SIL told her DS that she wanted to be called Nanna, as that was what she had called her own DGM.
She was told ‘Certainly not, it’s common’.
Though I would be appalled at being anything other than Granny, I felt sorry for SIL.

It was a joke

See I think Nana sounds ANCIENT. No issue with Granny. Both my Grannies were young.

I agree, although it's particularly "Nan" that sounds chair-in-the-corner-dozing-type-old to me.

But (and this isn't aimed at you, SALaw) whatever name it is that people think sounds old, presumably they'll have the sense - if/when they meet "Granny" or Nanny/Nan" etc - to react to the person.
When my DGC points me out as "Grandma" in 4 or so years time, people might initially visualise someone about 100 because of the name, but when they see me with their actual eyes they'll realise I'm quite a bit younger than that.
Likewise, when people see my acquaintance "Nanna", they'll probably spot she's in her late 70s, was no stranger to cigarettes for 40 years and won't think she should break her hip dashing to the "Glammas under 45" competition; she won't magically look different and more youthful due to being called Nanna.

@Jane958which leaves the title of non inverted snob for you?

There’s nothing wrong with Granny but perhaps your sister associates the name with her own grannies so wants to be different. I chose to be granny because my own children had had two grandmas and I didn’t want to take their names.

I'm in my 50's and 1 was Grandma and 1 was Nana... 50 years ago. What on earth are you on about?

What's wrong with Nana?

My brother was the first of my siblings to have children; his kids called my mother nana (or nanna) and their maternal grandmother was grandma (or granny).
So when I had a child we stuck with the same system; my mother was nanna and husband's mother was grandma.

It worked well for us.

Well, quite.
How does Nanna/Nana sound common?
Ridiculous snobbery.

Somewhere along the line I have picked up that Nana was a ‘ common’ name, and Grandma was posh. I never knew any of my grandparents. I’m very happy that my son’s who has no children ( yet) dog calls me Grandma…!

I only knew one, and she was Nanna, (my Dad's stepmam) An old lady I'd known all my life and was a good friend of my Mam and Dad became my "little Grandma"

We have a Granny and a Nanny. Can't personally stand Nanny, but it's what DH called his mum's mum, and it's what Nanny chose.

My Mum also considered Nan to be lower class but one letter made all the difference. Many of my friends including my husband used Nan and the one he called granny was by all accounts a horrible woman.

Even if someone decided to have a baby in their 30s ( say 32) if their mother had had them at 22 then grandmother would still be only 54. Hardly that old. Might be more likely in the next generation town with two lots of parents having babies in late 30s early 40s.