What name.do you go by

love it Grannynannywanny

sodapop my cousins in Ireland
called our maternal grandparents nanny and nannysdaddy! They grew up in our grandparents house and one of them as a toddler labelled grandpa as nannysdaddy and the name stuck. They died over 50 years ago and he is still affectionately referred to as nannysdaddy.

I'm Nana to my 2DGC, it was my choice and my DH is Dede, which is Turkish for Grandad and we've had mugs with these names on from them, which is rather nice.

I'm Nan to the older ones and Nanna to the GGC.
My stepD is Nina to her GC, a preferred name.
My D here is Nanny and sadly up to now there aren't any GC to my D in Oz as yet. Two GS's are in their 30's and GD is heading towards 30.

My mum was Gran--------which always sounds old to me.
In-laws were Grandma and Grandpa or Bam Bam.

Grandma70s

*Maggiemaybe*, why is it it ‘unoriginal guff’ to say that nanny is the word for a paid nursemaid/help? It’s a fact. I never heard it used to mean grandmother until I was well grown up, and it still seems an odd usage to me.

Because it’s obviously also a perfectly acceptable term for a grandmother (and a very widely-known one, as witness the number of Nanas, Nannies and Nans on this thread alone). The fact that the term has other meanings is irrelevant, and someone loftily proclaiming “I’m a grandmother, not a goat or the paid help” when someone says they are a Nan is just plain rude. It happens regularly on these threads - thankfully it hasn’t on here.

I was DoDoon for the first 5 years of DGS life as I live in the downstairs Granny flat in the house. So when he wanted to come down he said DoDoon from a very early age.
Quite embarrassing in some places to be honest.
Grandma now but still miss DoDoon.

I don't see why you find the usage of Nanny odd Grandma70s there are many variations on here and that is just one of them. I have always been Nanny and still am even though my grandchildren are in their twenties and thirties now.

We are Grandma and Granda, we only have two GC and they are sisters so they both call us that.
Other GPs are Granny and an unusual name, so unique I can't write it as it would identify him.

We are Granny and Grandpa.

My grandson with childhood apraxia of speech calls me Dandy, he can't get his tongue around the gr sound. He's having intensive speech therapy, and I will be a little sad when Dandy becomes Granny.

I`m Grandma and the g/children call their moms mom nan.
My step children call me nanny .

Granny name.

I love being called Nan by all my grandchildren. Sometimes I get called Nannykins for fun, - even though they are all grown up now.

Maggiemaybe, why is it it ‘unoriginal guff’ to say that nanny is the word for a paid nursemaid/help? It’s a fact. I never heard it used to mean grandmother until I was well grown up, and it still seems an odd usage to me.

As my name on here, I am Nanny Jan. When they were babies and toddlers it was Nanny Janny

I'm Granny to our four and DH is Grandad.

Our two DC called us by our first names for some years until last summer, when DH was so ill ,and DS started referring to him as "Dad" and me as "Mum" and I really liked that and it has continued. DD still refers to us by our first names though unless speaking to her DC when it's Granny and Grandad.

Grandma like my own grandmothers were called.
Grandma Jane if it’s necessary to distinguish me from my opposite number.

Nana, then as older teens Nan ... suits me

Nana & Grandad.
18 yr old DGS now calls me Nan.
Perfectly happy with both.

When my treasure calls me Nana it’s the sweetest sound in the world to me.

My children called my mum GanGan, shortened to Gan as they got older. Their Maltese grandmother was Nanna like every other grandmother in Malta.?

I think a GP should be called exactly what they choose. My S&P were gracious enough to ask me just that. I gave the matter a great deal of thought and, bingo, we're all decidedly happy.

Our eldest daughter was the first to have a baby and, because she loved her grandpa so much, she deemed that we should be grandpa and grandma! DGS1 had other ideas and called us Ma and Pa. I love it as I didn't really want to be a grandma, granny or any variety of Nana.

Grandma.

Granny.

Nana or nanny Lynn and Grandy.

Nana or nanny with my name attached.