Grandma Alternatives?

[Woodstock]

I'm soon to become a grandmother for the first time, but I'm not keen on being called Granny, Nanny, Grandma, etc. Does anyone have any alternatives I could consider please?

[sapelesam]

Try the Italian Nonni.

[davegosling]

Nonni = grandparents. Grandmother = nonna.

[-SharonA-]

I am known as Nana!

[Prudie]

I called my Welsh grandmother Nain (pronounced nine), the Spanish use Yaya which is nice.

[kvalidir]

My mother is an Omi (OH-MEE) :)

[Mamyalynne]

First time round I became Mamya due to his difficulty in pronouncing Grandma :-)

[DTCwordfan]

Oma or Omah

A derivative of your name....my third family grand matriarch was Felicity and known as Fizz or Minny, her mum as Ganning.....

[DTCwordfan]

sorry Georgina to Ganning......

[Islay]

ooma Flemish for grandmother

[atalanta]

A friend of mine insisted her daughter's children called her "Mummy's mummy". Problem arose when one of the grandchildren produced her own daughter. Was the great-grandmother to become "Mummy's Granny", or "Granny's Mummy, or " mummy's mummy's mummy " ?

[Old_Geezer]

Babysitter ?

[sherrardk]

Shouldn't it be left to organically occur, your grandchild might come up with something lovely and original by themselves over time.

[jackthehat]

I had a Grandma Lucy and a Granny Amy.
My son had a Nana and a Nanny (other grandchilden had got there first).
I am Nana and my wife is Nana J----, collectively known as The Nanas.

Believe me, when a little shining face looks up at you and calls you 'anything' it is rewarding......you won't really care! :o)

[Islay]

Sher that's what we did with my mothers dad he became known as Dia, and my father father was gramps but all his other grandchildren called him that so we followed suit - but with dia it was what my brothers named him as his first grandchildren.

[Islay]

Jack unless its 'my mummy calls you cow'!! lol

[jackthehat]

True.... :o)

[Smowball]

A well known actress had this dilemma and she decided on the name glamma = glamorous grandma!

[Arrods]

OH is a 'Gran-Gran' to our Malaysian/English grandchildren.

[jourdain2]

My grandkids call me 'Grandmamie'. I was living in France when they were born and 'mamie is French for Grandma - and so it goes. The youngest says 'Grandmamamie' - bless!

[Peter Pedant]

The teenage mutant taught his cousin to address Gamma as
"Nana Evil"
yeah I was the only one to find it faintly funny

Kval - ummi - is arabic for "my mozzair" innit ?
I never fail to point out to Nana that that is arabic for 'camomile'.
she finds it politely fascinating