What would be a good name for a grandma - not nationality etc (no oma no nona)

Every Nona or Nonna I know is barely Italian but definitely from South Jersey or some low brow location.

I personally don’t like grandma and grandpa. None of my grandparents or my kid’s’ grandparents went by these names I certainly won’t.

Anonymous wrote:My MIL is Grammy and I think it’s annoying

After a lot of angsting about what to be called, my mom decided on Grammy...and my niece couldn't say it, so now she's Mimi. I think she's gotten over it and is just happy to have a grandchild!

MIL literally took 3 years to settle on a name, having us call her everything from Granny to Nana to Nanny to Grandmom to Gran to Gmom. Finally I told her if she wanted us to call her anything besides “Judy,” she better settle on something. I didn’t care what she wanted to be called, just calm the eff down and choose something.

I knew she was putting on a show because my mom (who already had grandkids) was already “Grandma.” We never said she couldn’t also be Grandma, we just made it clear that was definitely also going to be what my mom was. MIL is obnoxious and attention-seeking in many ways, so I was not surprised by these antics, but it really did go on for years.

My MIL is Grammy and I think it’s annoying

Anonymous wrote:I saw my tweens phone contact list and she had “Gramma Crackers” for my mother. I didn’t ask.

Mine calls her ‘gramcracker’

Anonymous wrote:OP, just for a little perspective, all my kids’ grandparents are dead, and my own Nana was an immigrant who worked as a domestic.

So, having a hard time empathizing with you here.

My Nana was a seamstress who grew up in foster care.

My maternal grandmother went by Nana. It was normal to me and common where I grew up (New England). Very common in Ireland and England.

My MIL initially wanted a Swahili word for grandma to be her name ( it was super cute sounding to my ear but…..we’re all white, though they spent some time in Kenya) and I would have gone along with it but somehow it got dropped in favor of a more generic name.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in New England, where roughly 50 percent of grandmothers are called Nana. It Is the farthest thing from pretentious.

+1
My MIL called her grandmother Nana, my husband called his grandmother Nana, and my kid calls my MIL Nana. My Southern FIL is called Poppa. My parents are Grandma and Grandpa. There are regional and cultural variants that are totally normal. And quite often, it's the first grandkids who ends up setting rhe name.

I don't like the ones that sounds like parent names, like the above "mom mom". Or Papa. But I know those can be regional. Growing up my friends all had Grandma or Grandpa or the family traditions of nonna, bubbie, yiayia etc.

Mil also wanted a cultural name that wasn't her culture (like yiayia), and then further mispronounced becuase she didn't even really like the original. And FIL wanted to be called "pal".

Their family had always used grandma and grandpa but they insisted they weren't old enough to use those. Eventually it did morph back into grandma and grandpa because even dh couldn't get behind this. Then SIL had kids, and the ILs went ahead and picked 2 new weird grandparent names, which they still use (though they're all still preschool age). So all the grandkids call them something different.

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Anonymous wrote:My mother in law gets called Mom by the grandchildren. Not only is it annoying but it's also confusing.

My mother and her siblings called one of their grandmothers "Mom." I don't know why. But she always called her mother "Mother," so I guess there was no confusion.

Are they from the Philly area or S Jersey? My grandmother from that area always wanted us to call her Mom-mom but, because we called our own mother Mom, it didn’t work. But she explained that when she was a kid, her mom was “Mother” and grandmother was “Grandmom” or “Mom-Mom.”

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. What a weird thing to be upset over. Life is easier when you learn to go with the flow.

Do you not know what a vent is?

Dp. There is nothing wrong with what pp wrote. What a funny thing to vent over