Grand parent names

[SandrA9810]

mother's side - Ma and Pa
now, Ma is nana to my aunt's son (he's like twice my age, so he was grown up by the time we came along and started calling them differently) and his daughter. I have no idea what my uncle's kids call her. I grew up with them so Ma is what i believe to be right. She is Ma to us three kids and my sis' 7 kids.
Aunt is Grammy, because that's what she called her grandmother, and wanted to be called that by her grandkids.
My aunt, we have always called her by her first name. It was never aunt or auntie K, just K. People get so confused by it, but it just doesn't sound right to say aunt in front.

Father's side - Grommy (grandmother) and Didi (grandfather). Didi passed away at the begining of the year. But thats what they're called from the first grandkids to the great grandkids. I was the youngest, and also not around, so i have no idea how they ended up with that name.

My mom is just grandma to my sister's kids. And i'm just auntie sandi.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

On my mom's side, they are just Grandma and Grandpa.

On my dad's side, it is Grandma and Poppy.

 

[Illuminations_Rocks]

names I've heard for a grandmother:

Grandma
MomMom
MaMaw
Nana ----- (I call my mom's mom this)
Nanny
MeMaw
Memmy ---- (this and the shortened is popular where I grew up)
Mem
Grammy ---- (I called my dad's mom this, actually it was Grammy "Lastname")
Gamma --- (pronounced "gam" "ma" like you got some gams [legs] on you)
Gammy
GiGi
Mimi ----- (some of my cousin's kids actually call their grandma "Mimi Tractor" as she lives behind a farm and they associated her with the tractors when realllllly little)
Oma (added this in, I forgot about it)
YaYa (edited again as I forgot this one too)


I only had one grandfather growing up and we called him "Pappy". Many of my cousins call their grandfathers "Pappy" or "Pap". My nieces and nephews call my FIL, "Grandpa".

 

[BellvilleDad]

My grandparents were simply Grandma and Granddad. To avoid confusion, when talking about them, we'd say "Grandma Smith" or "Granddad Jones".

This, but mine were Grandma and Granddaddy.

 

[rabyoga]

I think allowing kids to come up with names. My daughter came up with the name she calls my dad: Poppycakes.
Here's the story: We were visiting my parents. My daugther was 2 yrs. old at the time. We were watching some video my dad took of our day at the zoo. Everytime my daughter heard my dad's voice on the tape, she would say "Poppycakes". I asked her "What?". She points to my dad on the tape and then looks at him and says, "Poppycakes". From then on, she calls him Poppycakes. (Even now, 12 yrs. later.) We never figured out where she got the name but it is cute and fits him.
My mom is called Judybug. It's a nickname she's had for years and we all call her that.

 

[amberg@eastlink.ca]

my grandmother is gommy to me and great gommy to my kidlets. apparently my mom tried to get me to say grammy and gommy came out and has stuck. i also had a nanny and her 2/3rd hubby was puppy jack. my kids call my inlaws nanny(cus she could say nanny and loved the show the nanny), and grandpa.

 

[PirateSnowmen]

I had Pappaw and Mammaw, although she passed away before I was born.

My mom's parents passed away before I was born, so they didn't have any grandchildren. Actually, I think they were still alive when my cousins were born, but my cousins are 25+ years older than me, so I have no idea what they [my mom's parents] were called.

My aunt is called Mimi by her grandchildren. I think they call my uncle Pawpaw, but I'm not certain.

 

[bgirldeb]

I like it when the kids come up with the names themselves. My son, the first grandchild, basically came up with his name for my mom when he couldn't pronounce grandma. She's now know as 'Geeba'.

 

[momof1princess]

my grandparents (i only had one set-dad's parents died not long after i was born) were maw-maw and paw-paw. when my cousin was born (he's 18 now) he called them gagee and papa, so that's what we all started calling them.
my daughter has mimi and paw-paw (DH's parents) and maw-maw, paw-paw donald (my parents) and nana pam (my step-mother).

 

[HM]

My parents are grandmommy and grandpa. My DHs parents are Mima and Papa (given by the oldest grandchild).
My parents would have liked to be Oma and Opa (dutch), but didn't insert their thoughts until too late.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Our kids call them Grandma "first name" and Grandpa "first name". We asked the grandmas what they wanted to be called and they both insisted on Grandma. We needed a way to differentiate them for the kids so that is what we came up with. I don't think my Mom really likes that but they were both inflexible in the grandma thing so that was the best we could come up with.

 

[It'sWDW4me]

I had two Grammys (Gram, as I got older) and two Pappys.

My son had two Nanas (sadly, my ex's mom passed on a few years ago), one Pop-pop and one Pappy (now "Pap")

One of my co-workers is a Mama to her grandkids and one is a Gammy (not grammy).

My nephew calls one of his grandmothers Honey (I think he picked that up from his grandfather calling his grandmother "Honey")

 

[dejr_8]

The grandmothers are Grammy G or Grammy K and the grandfather is pup pup.

 

[2binak]

In my family we've used: Grandma, Grandpa, Nanny, Poppy, Nana, Papa, Grammy & Mimi.

 

[scrapquitler]

My paternal grandparents were Grama and Grampa, my maternal grandparents were Nanny and Papa.

My cousins kids call their grandparents (my aunt and uncle) GeeGee and Bumpa, which I had never heard of. But in the last couple of years, I've heard Bumpa a few other times, so maybe its a regional thing (all those Bumpas were in New Hampshire).

 

[MAKmom]

I did not start this but my Grand daughter calls me Fairy Godmother. She is 4. There were 3 other Mom-moms when she was born.

 

[southernbohemian]

My son was the first of my parent's grandchildren - so we had this same discussion. His grandparents on my DBF's side were already called "Grandma" and "Grandpa" by his older siblings, so I wanted to do somethng different. I grew up with MawMaws and PawPaws on both sides of the family - so you always had to specify which one you were talking about. My mother chose Grammy because my great-grandmother had been known as Gram and she was the great matriarch of my dad's family and my mom wanted to pay respects to her (as well as take over the title, I think). My dad could have cared less but I came up with Pop Pop because it sounded nice when you said "Grammy and Pop Pop." I still have 3 living grandparents, so my son has MawMaws and PawPaws too.

I have a friend who is called G.G. (or GiGi) for Gorgeous Grandma. I thought that was cute.

 

[mikki'smom]

My grandsons call me "Mudger" and they call their grandfather "Night Night"... of course our oldest grandson chose these names...Mudger came from his attempts at "grandmother"...Night Night probably came about because his grandfather was always rocking him to sleep...you know...time to go "Night Night"...

 

[It'sWDW4me]

Our kids call them Grandma "first name" and Grandpa "first name". We asked the grandmas what they wanted to be called and they both insisted on Grandma. We needed a way to differentiate them for the kids so that is what we came up with. I don't think my Mom really likes that but they were both inflexible in the grandma thing so that was the best we could come up with.

When I was growing up, I called them Grammy K and Pappy K and Grammy E and Pappy E - using the first letter of the last names to differentiate.

I truly thought my mom would want to be called Grammy and so, when my ex's mom always said she looked forward to being a Nana, I celebrated the end of the confusion (which Grammy are you talking about? ). And then I got pregnant, told my mom how wonderful that DS would have a Grammy and a Nana, and was shocked when mom said she really wanted to be called Nana, too!

Oh, well, I survived 2 Grammys, DS can survive 2 Nanas!

 

[DisMomme]

I had a Nana, Granny,Grampy and a Nanny. I'm not sure how those names came about.

My in-laws are Grammie and Grampa. My kids have older cousins that already called them that.

My parents were supposed to be a Nana and Grampy but the kids called them Meme and Papa. Not sure where they got that.

The kids will come up with whatever they are going to call their grandparents. Usually some variation of what you pick. No matter what, the grandparents will fall in love with whatever name the grandchildren choose for them.