What should Great Grandparents be called?

My grandchildren call DH and myself Nanny and Grandad and called DH mother Grandma.

What do the children call you?

I can see that if you thought you would be Nan and your husband Granddad that it hurts that the children's great-grandparents are hogging those names.

It doesn't sound as if you will persuade them to change, so could you not find a name for yourself that you would like?

My children used Opa and Oma for the great grandparents as they had spent time in Holland and they were short and easy names to say and remember. Only had one pair to name.

I have one great grand child only 19months. He calls me Nana as do my 6 grandchildren. My daughter who is the Grandma is known as that. In our family 2 of my children married late so have got young children. Whereas my middle daughter married young. I think we thought it better to have the names attached to the person not varied with the children. Hope tha doesn’t sound too complicated but it works for us!

My great granddaughter aged 3 calls me GG which I love!

In our family the immediate Grans have always been Nanny, then the Great Gran is Grandma.

Like another poster we used names in my family...I had Nanny and Grandad **, that was for all.

My mother was known as GG to great grandchildren. This is also the case in my DIL s family. It sounds nice I think!

Being a Great Gran, the children call me Nanna and my D is known as Nanny to them.

The relationship you have with your Grandchild is far more important than the titles.
However, we have a great granddad in our family and he is known as Grandad Jim as Jim is his first name.
Within your family, it seems it has already been decided.

Enjoy your Grandchild and all the pleasures they bring.
Don’t allow someone else’s title, spoil the years of love and affection you can offer and will receive!

I think you are right when you say your judgement may be clouded by your bad relationship. It may be annoying to you but it’s something you can just ignore. In my family I’m a Great Grandma and my GGC call me GaGa coined by my eldest GS so they could differentiate between me and their Nanny and Granny.
I would try not to bother about it.

Could you consider similar but different....Nana and PaPa? The GC might solve the issue by coming up with their own names. “Pom” was given to my GF by his first GC and was used lovingly by the 47 GC that followed. This is not a time for family angst.

My grandchildren call my Mum Great Gran.