S/O: nana? Grandma? Mimi? Other?

I'm thinking I'll tag into DH's Greek heritage and go with yiayia since he'll probably want to be known as papou. 

Grandma. I picked it and love it. When my mother visited from out of state, my grandkids would call her great grandma. Then they would call me - regular grandma ! This was totally out of love and they took the word *great* to mean what it says.

I've thought about this lots of times over the years. I'm hoping to be nana like all of the other grandmothers on my mom's side. But I do get that sometimes the grands have other ideas.

Ds didn't talk until he was nearly 4, so we named grandparents and got their approval. My in-laws liked grandma and grandpa, they are British. My mom is nana and my stepdad is papa. My biological dad is grandpa Belk and my step mom is grandma Jo. My step dad that raised me is gramps. And Ds nanny is called MarMar, a rift in the Danish word for your mother's mother, Mormor. It worked for us.I

ETA The great grandkids call my sisters "nana" and my mom "nana great". My stepdad 's mom died last Christmas day at 103. My Ds called her "nana max" because he thought "nana greatest" would hurt my mom's feelings since she would be just "nana" and "nana great" was for the great grandkids to use. Nana max loved her moniker so much she started making everyone, and I mean everyone, call her nana max.

I was going to be a meemaw like my aunt. But my daughter won’t have anything to do with me so there’s tgAt. Baby is due in March.

In my family and dh’s it’s just grandma but I want something fun! No grandkids yet.

I’m Grammie. By the time we moved the 1100 miles from Texas to be close to DD, SIL & grandson he was 3 yrs old. By then, he had been calling his other grandparent “grandma” like her other 6 grandkids. He just started calling me Grammie because he already had a ‘grandma’. (She saw him often because they only live 45 min away and had another grandchild that lived close by too). It’s all good because his other grandparents are really nice people.

The grandson (he’s our only grandchild) will soon be 14 and still calls me Grammie.

I was Grandma Marcia to my first two (now ages 11 and 7). When their little brother came along, he decided to call me NayNay. His speech has always been delayed (he is now 4) but for some reason this was something he started all on his own and it was always spoken very clearly. The older two have now picked it up so I am mostly NayNay to all of them, except the 11 year old who still sometimes calls me Grandma. I love being NayNay because it is different and given to me by my little sweetie.

Until very recently my Grandson had a great Nanny and a great Grandma as well as myself and his other grandmother so I avoided them and went with Nanna. I toyed with things like Nona, mimi etc but was shouted down by my DD and SIL because they said it sounded like female private parts  

I won't be having grandkids, but I'm already an Aunt Mimi. 

My parents are Grammie and Grandpa. My in-laws are Baba, Granddad and Grandma.

I only had one grandma growing up because the other one passed away before I was born. The one I had was just Grandma. My mom went by Granny mostly, but some of the grandkids called her Grandma (firstname). My kid has no living grandparents, but she has a few surrogates that she calls Grandma (firstname) and Grandpa (firstname). I guess I really don’t care what name any future grandchild might call me as long as it’s said with love.

About 6 yrs. ago my daughter went to a dance recital of her friend and brought the program home. Parents, friends, grandparents can write a note to the kid and have it in the program. I was making fun of the names many grandparents were called. So, my kids decided to call me "memaw" and my husband "peepaw".

They haven't called us mom or dad since. So I'm at the store with my 10 yr. old and she is calling me "memaw"! Obviously I am not fond of my name! They also call us "tootsie and chocho". And their boyfriends call us memaw and pepaw too. So if my daughters have kids at some point, I will tell them to call us mom and dad and they can call their parents those cutsie grandparent names!

My mom was Grandma and MIL is Nana. My kids have told me I will not be Nana because there will never be another one like her! (They were very young when my mom died and don’t really have any memories of her.)

I don’t like Grandma for me, so I’ll probably be Mimi or something like that. Many years down the road, of course!

My Mom goes by Omi.   Not sure if I'll do the same or not when that time eventually gets here.