Nanny or Nannie

I am granny to all of my grandchildren, although when some were tiny they called me nanny as granny was too difficult to say. I used to look after a little girl who called her grandmother "auld mam" (old mam)

I chose to be called Nannie too and chose that spelling but it's so difficult for my daughters to find Birthday and Christmas cards with this spelling,almost no existent,they have to take the expensive way out and order ones through Moonlight etc. Sometimes l wish l had chosen different for this reason.

I don't understand how granny/gran is somehow less youthful than nana/nanny.

My DGD (now 10) started off calling me 'nanny',but has changed it to 'nanna' over the last couple of years,at the same time she started calling her mummy,'mumma'. No idea why. She still calls her father 'daddy' though,not 'papa'! When my DGD was born,I was adamant that I didn't want to be called 'granny' or 'grandma' as at the age of 43,I thought it made me sound ancient!

Always remember my Mum saying she did not want to be Nanny because she wasn't a goat! I am known as Grandma .Would prefer Granny ,but my SIL' s Mum got there first! No hard feelings really!

Surely your grandchildren may choose a name for you. One set of my grandparents were Mama and Dada as that's what my cousin called them and so we all did. The others were Grannie and Granda. Our grandchildren have a Grandma and Grandad and a Grannie and Dadat.

When my first grandchild was born my mother was still alive and she was Nannie. She became Nat Nan to her great grandson who couldn't say 'Great'. So I had to decide on a name. I had always been a fan of Mork and Mindy so I decided on Nanoo There have been five more grandchildren since...I am Nanoo to all of them

I'm Grandma, because my mother, still alive when 1st grandchild arrived, was Nan!

I am called Oma as my daughter became pregnant when we lived in Germany and everyone kept saying congrats Oma and it stuck!

I am a gran in my own mind, but grand daughter calls me gan gan..........

I'm Granny and always wanted to be as my own Granny was so special. Just as well as the other Grandmother was already Nana to DGD's three cousins. The other Grandfather was already Grandpa and as my husband didn't like Grandad he is called Pappi which our French friends suggested. However she hasn't called us anything yet so we will adapt to whatever she does.

I'm nanny pink..obviously...and love it. Don't want to be called anything else.

I'm a Nanima as my grandchildren are half Indian and are the children of my daughter. Their paternal grandmother is Dadima.

Are there any Scots in the family. My parents' relations were ies, but English honorary aunts were Aunty. Same with Granny. But DS calls MIL Grandma and her parents were Grandmama and Grandpumpa

I'm Mamar. First GS couldn't say Grandma....... came out as Mamar. It's stuck at this & I'm really happy with it.

I am Nannie. Grandmothers in my family have always been Nannie.

I dislike Nanny - makes me think of goats! My 4 all call me Grandma; they are all "step" and especially precious as I never expected to be in the position of having any grandchildren, so basically they can call me whatever they like and I'll be happy.

My eldest grandchild couldn't say grandma and said RaRa. Now all 6 GC call me RaRa. I love it!

As he's only 12 weeks old, my DGS is calling me 'lo' at the moment. We think it's because I say 'Hello' very clearly to him a lot.
I want to be called 'Nan' eventually though, because I'm far too cool to be a 'Gran/Grandma/Granny'

I'm Tatty to my now adult grandchildren and I love it.

I like Nan or Nana was what my gd called me when she was young. I really don't love gran or granny grannie. So old fashioned

I am nannie, but my Welsh grand daughters called their other grandparents Nein and Teidy..........which I loved.

I'm Gaga (in more ways than one!)

I'm Nana to most of my grandchildren and Oma to the German and Dutch ones. My grandma always forbade us to call her nanny because, as she said, she wasn't a goat.

I asked to be Granny Lynne, although one of my GDs has translated that to Gaggy Lynne! When mine were little we had Granny and Gramps Sam (their dog's name!) and Granny and Grandad Caravan (work it out ?) with no input from us!