Gran or Nan?

I am Granny and DH is Grandpa. This has turned out to be a good choice, since my DD, SiL and family moved to Scotland three years ago. There are lots of Grannies there. I chose to be called Granny in remembrance of my own beloved and missed Granny.

I am Grandma, well thats the theory, DGS has a thing about nicknames and I am now Godoon, why, because he goes doon to Grandmas apartment.
I get some very strange looks at times and it was a bit embarrassing in the Church hall last Sunday when he was shouting for me to come and see what he had made that morning. !!!!!!

Love it, nannotgran .

I'm Nana - little DGS1 always gives me the full title of Nana Maggie , even though both my opposite numbers are Grandma, so there's no confusion.

My eldest grandchildren call me NAN my youngest grandchildren call me NANA and my great grandchildren call me NAN-NAN
and i cant remember half of their names ha ha

I am grandma, never been shortened,and I like that. Would hate to be called nanna or nanny.

I am Nanny; my counterpart is Nannan, which is the term which is used more often up here for grandmothers. I'm sure when he's a bit older he'll shorten it or call me something else (grumpy old hag, perhaps?).

I'm just plain nana, my grandmothers' were Wimbledon nana and Sussex nana. My mother always referred to her grandmother as grandma which I now quite like.

My Mum was Gran and my own Grandmothers, both dead before I was born were Granny G and Granny C.

I am Granny and love that. Even my own DC call me Granny and so does DH in the presence of the DGC. I do feel sometimes that I have lost my own person when he and DC call me Granny though!

Mine all called me Nanny, then for no reason I could fathom when they got to around 18/19 it changed to Grandma, so the two younger ones still call me Nanny and to the rest it's Grandma.

I'm Ma and DH is Pa.

DD1, the mother of our eldest DGC and therefore the person who had a say, loved her grandpa so much that she wanted her children to have one too! DH is the only male grandparent so he had the title bestowed upon him. Grandpa's wife (ie DMiL!) was grandma, so I had little choice although I would have preferred Granny.

Despite all our machinations, DGS1 decided to call us Ma and Pa and, naturally, so do the subsequent grandchildren. And we love it.

I'm Nana as was my maternal grandmother. My own mum became Gan-gan (shortened to Gan when the children grew up) which was my daughter's attempt to say 'granny'. My sister is Gamma.

As to the spelling - most greetings cards spell it 'nana' but I don't think there's a right or wrong way to spell it. In Malta just about every grandmother is 'Nanna' and they pronounce both 'n's' as do the Italians with 'Nonna'.

I am Granna – the name my oldest grandchild decided to call me and all the others have followed suit. Their paternal grandmother is Granny. Absentdaughter's grandmothers chose to call themselves Grandmum and Nanny. I wasn't madly enthusiastic about nanny because I employed nannies until absentdaughter was three and thought it was slightly confusing. My grandmothers were called Granny D… and Granny. As I get older, I rather fancy Grandmama, but I don't think that's going to happen.

When I was a child I had a Nanna but I notice the spelling is more often Nana now. Which is correct? I wonder if Nana is the American version?

I'm a Grandma. My mum is a Nana because she thinks it makes her sound younger (she's 80). My aunt is a Nanny which isn't a word we use around here and makes me think of someone who is paid to look after a child/children. Mind you the way they used her when the child was younger maybe it was the correct title except they didn't pay her.

I started out as Nanna but as the grandchildren became older it changed to Nan.

Class as well - not many middle/upper class Nannys/Nans. My own mother wanted to be Nan as it was more like a name and less than an ageing title!