Other grandparent names?

[Keira]

Hi,

Just wondering if your children have an unusual name they call their grandparents?

My mum has just turned 45 and feels that the name Grandma or Nanna makes her sound/feel/look old! She's a very "young" 45, and looks a lot younger, so people think we're sisters most of the time...

So we're looking for a name that our baby can call her that isn't a normal Grandma/Nanna name!

So far, i thought of Nah-nah (sounding like banana) but other than that, i'm stumped!

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Keira

[Shanti]

Gran? LOL even that sounds old doesn't it? hehe Maybe by the time your baby is old enough to talk, your mum will be used to being a grandma by that stage and not mind so much? hehe

[Keira]

Haha! Yeah i'm hoping so, we did start calling her old lady but she really didn't like that

[visitor1]

My parents are: Nan and Pa
DH parents are: Grandma and Grandpa

DH mum is only 46 and loves being called Grandma.

[Rachel]

My parents are Nana and Pop
DH parents are Grandpa and Lully

DH mother is a twin and when she was younger that was her special name from her sister, so that is what she wanted to be called when my nephew was born so therefore it has followed through to DD. Something different anyway. My mum is 49 and thinks Grandma is too old but loves Nana.

[avasmum]

My parents are Nanna & Poppy (Nanna & Poppa according to DD)
DH's parents are Grandma & Grandad (Dub dah & ba bub according to DD)

Maybe she could be called Nana ____ (whatever her first name is). That is what my Auntie is called by her grandsons. It makes her feel younger apparently.

[castle]

In Dh's family, some cousins call their grandmother "Meemaw". (I'm trying to write it the way they pronounce it." And apparently, they did not make that up.
Some other cousins say Nana (first name) as Lindy said above.
In French the grandparents are called "Mamy" (or Mamie) and "Papy". That is pronounced like the American/Canadian "Mommy".

[~Debbie~]

maybe get her to chose her own name.
My mum is Mina (not due to hiding age, just thats what she called her fav grand ma), and my Dad is Poppy. DH's parents will be Nanna & Pop. (i think)
I had a friend, whos mother was Neenie to her grandkids, but, it did get abit irriating to her as if the kids where whinny, they would draggggg out the ee's.


The down side to having an unusal name, is you cant get cute little stuff like "I'm my nana's shopping buddy' type t'shirtss/bibs etc.

[Beach Mama]

How about nonny, poppy, ma, mama, pa papy, non, nonna...my parents are baba and deda...(yugoslav) and DH's are pa and ma aiko...HtH

[Pandora]

My mum and dad are Grandma and Grandad
DH's mum is nanna

Princes Confused - our step grandma had us call her Marnie as well. her name is Eileen. I think it was her daughters idea,a nd I have heard of other grandmas being called it but have no idea where it comes from.

[Roudysmum]

Both my mum and Dhs mum are Nan but when we refer to my mum and she is not around we call her Kiwi nan so ds knows who we are talking about and if he sees a photo of her he refers to her as Kiwi nan aswell but to her face on the rear occasion that he gets to see her he just calls her nan.
Our fathers are poppy (DHs) and grandad (mine)

[pebbles2820]

My mum loves being called grandma too. I had a Mamo(welsh) an Oma(dutch) and a Nanama(aussie). My brothers MIL believes she is too young to be a nanna aswell so my nephews call her Rikrik(her name is Ricky) and mums best friend is called Narnar(Neryl) by her grandkids.

[RhiChiChi]

What about Ninny or Nanny?

[little sprocket]

This is a funny one so please dont get your kids to call your mothers this.

My nephew calls his fathers mother Mugga (and it has nothing to do with her running up to people and grabbing their handbags). You see "Mugga's" husband calls his wife "Mad Cow' (I work with him) and was trying to get my nephew to call her Mad Cow one day and instead of calling her that, my nephew came up with Mugga. To this day she thinks its cute and doesnt know where he got it from but the rest of us know exactly whats going on. I know its mean but I just dont have the heart to tell the poor woman. It hilarious when u here her call herself Mugga though.

[Karina]

DH parents are "grandy" I am not so keen on it (because its wierd to me!), but she likes it.

[Bathsheba]

When my DD was born she had 5 "grandmothers".

My step-mother (Nana V***) First name
My mother (Nana C***) First name
My Paternal grandmother (Nana S***) Surname
My Maternal grandmother (Nana F***) Surname
DH's mother (Nana L***) First name.

If DH's family were younger she could have had 2 more (his grandmothers!!!) But they had passed away long ago.
We put the first name of the younger nanas and the surname of the older nanas for courtesy.

There are only 3 unrelated grandfathers so we use surnames for them all.

Admittedly it took a while for the younger nanas to agree to having their first names used by our children but I think they understand the predicament and haven't mentioned any discomfort about it for about 10 years now.

[BellyBelly]

There is an article on the main site about it: https://www.bellybelly.com.au/grandp...y-grandparents

[Bathsheba]

Great article Kelly Our problem was that all our Grandmothers wanted to be just called "Nana" so we had to initially bend some traditions so that our DD wouldn't be confused... glad it's behind us because it was very tricky!

ETA: Our children actually just call them "Nana" when they are talking to them... but the issue was that when DH and I were referring to them eg: "We are going to go see Nana" ...that's when we have to add the names so our children would know which one.