Grandmother Name

The first grandchild will decide! My mom wanted to be "creative" with her name too... my son (the first grandchild) started called her "Gammy" because he heard us saying "Grammy" and it stuck. They all call her Gammy and that's how she refers to herself now too!

We let my son decide what he wanted to call my mom. We called her grandma for the first year then he named her nanna. But I know others that have just picked out their names themselves. I like Kiki.

Either sounds fine - I am just curious - it seems these days everyone is looking for a name other than simply grandma - why is that?

Pretty much, your grandchildren will come up with the name.

I remember when my 16 year old daughter was pregnant. I was in my late 30's. I told her she'd better come up with another name for me because I was waaayyyyyy too young to be "grandma." The whole pregnancy I dreaded being called "grandma."

Then, when the little beggar was born, the first words I said to him were "Hi, I'm grandma!" And it just felt soooo right. I relish hearing my grandchildren call me "grandma." I'm proud to be their grandma! By the way, that little beggar will be 16 this year!

my mom is bubbie which is yiddish for grandma.. my brother called our grandma bannana for the longest time.

I know of Mee-mees, Mee-maws, Nunnies, Gamas, Grammys, Grandmas, Gigis, etc.
I think, in the end, your grandchildren will name you! :)

Grandma? Sounds like a woman who has white hair and glasses and support hose.

My mom was barely 50 when we had our daughter.. she did not look like what we all projected as "grandma"..

The grandchild will come up with their own name for you.
But either of the names you picked sound great.

My MIL wanted our DD to call her by her nickname which is a spin on her real first name. I am a tad old school and not a fan of using first names, a derivitive or not, to address our elders. For us, it is a lack of respect. Again, I know that times have changed but that is always how we did it. My DD uses Grandma/Grandpa (last name) for my dad & step mom, my mom and stepdad are Granny and Pop pop (btw, my mom was in her 40's when she became a granny, I don't associate the title with an age) and my in-laws are Grandma/grandpa (first name). It was alittle compromise on my part but everyone is happy and she does have 6 g-parents afterall!

Is there any hispanic blood? How about Abuela, Abuelita - lita
Or whatever the heritage is, you could be Oma and Opa

Mine are Gramma Martin and Gramma Bena. They both wanted to be called Gramma so we added thier names.

The surviving gramma has evolved to G-Ma because we all speak in text now.

I think you will find that your first granchild will be the one to make the choice of what your, 'granparent' name will be, it doesn't truly matter what you say or what others call you by, the child will have their own rendition of the name you choose.

Congrats! From, 'Granni' or 'Gran' as it were! ;)

My MIL picked GG...easy to say:)

Kiki is cute. My MIL was just 52 when my daughter was born and she said she was way too young to be called grandma so she went with Mia. It is really cute. Both of our parents are divorced so we have Grammie, Mimi, Mia and Nunnie. The granddads are Pap, Papo, Pappy G, and PapPap. Gets a L. confusing sometimes!!!

I am Gran and my husband is Papa. (It started out as Grandpa, but the oldest grandchild couldn't say that, so she called him Papa and it stuck.) Names on the other side(s) are Grandma and Grandpa, and Grammie and Grampy.

One of my friends is called Lala by her grandchildren and she loves it!

My mother started out as Grandma, then it was Grandma Templeton to distinguish her from my oldest baby's other Grandma. But he couldn't say that, so he started calling her Grandma Tex, since she lived in that state, and she was Grandma Tex thereafter.

All this is to say that whatever you think you like, the grandchild may come up with something else! :^)

I know someone whose grandkid named her "ha ha" after a song. My mom is Nana to my kids and Grandma to my sister's son. My MIL is Branma (first kid couldn't say Grandma) to oldest nephew and his daughter. My sks' maternal grandmother has a unique nickname b/c she felt she was too young to be "Grandma".

I might suggest a nickname for my sks' kids because I've always been First Name with them and I will be a pretty young stepgrandma if they have kids in the next 10 years. But if they really want to roll with Grandma, then, okay. The other thing to consider is if you want to constantly wonder who's calling you. Kiki is reaaallly close sounding to N..

I'm not opposed to nicknames (so many venn diagram families that you might need a few more names) but I'm also a fan of traditional Nana, Nan, Mommom, Granny, Grandma, Grandmom....or using the variation in your family's language or from your heritage. I just don't want to be Nana b/c that's my mom's title. I think that for some people the non-title is a way to deal with the fact that they're a grand now. We're so youth-focused I think sometimes people forget that it's an honor to have grandkids in your life vs just feeling like they make you old.

Our kids (the first grandchildren), decided on the name. My son calls all of his grandmas 'MaMa'. My daughter started out doing the same, but has shifted to 'Grandma' in the last couple of weeks.

We just do Grandma Mary, Grandma Suzy... My nephews call their grandma Papa... which I think is just weird.

I always let my grandchild pick out what they will call me : )