Grandparent names

[sam_gordon]

No, I'm not talking about their "proper" names. I'm talking nick names.

As I've said previously, I'm going to become a first time grandfather later this year. DD & DSiL told us at Christmas. They immediately asked DW & I what we want to be called. DW said she wants to be called "Nana". I didn't have an answer, and said I have to think about it. Six weeks later and I still don't have an answer. My grandfathers were called Zayde (paternal) and Pop-pop (maternal). Our kids called my dad Zayde also and DW's dad Papaw.

I've considered all three (my Dad passed away almost nine years ago), but nothing jumps at me. Maybe for one, I still don't feel old enough to be a grandparent (definitely am).

What and how did your grandfathers (whether you or your kids) get called?

 

[barkley]

I called both of mine grandpa, my kids did the same with their one.

 

[Rogue1677x]

For my daughter, she has 3 grandmothers and 3 grandfathers (I've got stepparents on my side), but because there were other grandkids born before her, the names they went by were already set:

My mother and stepdad: Graga and Papa
My father and stepmother: Grandpa and Grandma

My mother in-law and father in-law don't have any other grandkids and chose the names they'd like to be called: Nana and Pop.

 

[lovesmurfs]

My mother-in-law is Grammy; her husband was Grandpa.

My mother, who didn't think she could be Grammy too, chose "Grandy." Dad was "Pop-pop."

My husband and I are Grandma and Granddad/Grandpa. Solely because it's too damn hard to find specialty name cards. I was able to find some Pop-pop, but it was a really stupid challenge every year that I swore I'd never do to our kids.

 

[sam_gordon]

My mother-in-law is Grammy; her husband was Grandpa.

My mother, who didn't think she could be Grammy too, chose "Grandy." Dad was "Pop-pop."

My husband and I are Grandma and Granddad/Grandpa. Solely because it's too damn hard to find specialty name cards. I was able to find some Pop-pop, but it was a really stupid challenge every year that I swore I'd never do to our kids.

What do you mean "find specialty name cards"? Are you referring to birthday cards? I don't remember stressing over that and we didn't have "typical" grandparent names.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Grandpa and Papa were mine.

You could start with grandpa and see where it goes from there. I ended up nicknaming one of my grandmas when I started taking because her name was too much for me- nickname stuck for all 6 grandkids to come

 

[kdonnel]

Should the day come for me, I am pushing to be called Old Spice.

edited to add:
I forgot to list some of my other contenders.

The Fossil
Jurassic Pa
Antique Roadshow

 

[LoveDaisy]

Fathers parents were nana and grampy
Mothers parents were papa and lovey.

I was one of the younger grandchildren but I hear the older kids named them, they didn’t pick their names.

 

[FreeTime]

We have / had in our family:

Pawcaw
Pappy Fred
Grandpa
Daddy Bill (the grandkids called grandpa the same thing that their parents did)

For the ladies it has been Mimi, Nana, Grandma, Molly (wanted her first name)

 

[Disneychick13]

@sam_gordon Congrats on soon becoming a grandfather! So I didn’t have any grandfathers, but for one of my kid’s grandpa everyone calls him “popee”. My other kid calls her grandpa…..just “grandpa”.

 

[lovesmurfs]

What do you mean "find specialty name cards"? Are you referring to birthday cards? I don't remember stressing over that and we didn't have "typical" grandparent names.

Our families are all in different time zones from us, so everything is shipped or mailed. My mother doesn't WANT a card that says "grandmother" or "grandma." She WANTS a card that says Grandy.

Actually, she's mellowed since the kids are grown -- she's happy to get anything. It's just a quirk of my disfunctional family.

 

[PatsGirl]

My first grandbaby, now 2, was the first on both sides. It is my son's child so I gave preference first to DIL mom and dad, who wanted the traditional gramma and grampa. I chose Nana. I wanted it Disney themed and so Nana from Peter Pan it is. Everyone in my family thinks it sounds "old". Well, I'm not a very young grandmother so there's that lol. The formal name is NanaB. My grand nieces and nephews have always called me Auntie B. (and their other aunties Auntie A, Auntie O, etc). In my family we had Mama and Papa (as grandparents) although two of the 7 grandchildren called her Gram, Gigi (great grandmother), Meme (grandmother), Nana (grandmother) and Lala (grandmother).

 

[Southernmiss]

Pops, Poppop, Thor are 3 grandfather names of 50 something year old grandfathers I know.

 

[Meriweather]

never knew my paternal grandfather.
Maternal one was Papa, all grand kids called him that and I was not the oldest so the oldest one chose it.

My grand kids call us Nana and Papa, the same as I called my grandparents

 

[The Mayor]

My four grandchildren call me Papa. My two children also called my father and father in law Papa. I like it a lot better than Grampy or Grandpa.

 

[wannabee]

We named my dad Grumpy. Perfectly fitting he grew to love it. My mom was Grammy.

My grandparents were nana and Papa and Gram.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Neither my husband nor I grew up calling our grandparents anything other than "grandma" and "grandpa"

Do you feel like you have to have some name? You may be overthinking this.

Sometimes people have different names to distinguish which side of the family they are coming from, that I feel is a personal choice. It never confused my husband nor I growing up in which side we were talking about. My husband also calls his step-dad "dad" and if there needs to be a clarification between our conversations I'll just ask "____" or "____" (their respective names).

 

[Christine]

My grandparents were Grandma (but the 'd' was silent so sounded like Gramma) and Grampy. My husband called his grandparents Grammy and Grampy.

 

[leebee]

My maternal grandfather was "Doc" because he was a doctor, so my grandmother was, of course, "Nana Doc". My paternal grandmother was "Nana B" as her last name started with a B, although all my cousins called her "Grammie" or "Grammie B."

As a kid, I was always uncomfortable explaining the Doc was actually my grandfather. While now I like that this is what we called him, when I was a kid I wish he'd been Grandpa or a more common grandfather name. I also wished at the time (as well as now) that we'd called Nana B "Grammie" like the rest of the family. Just thinking about it from the kid's point of view when you are considering a unique or different name.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Pops, Poppop, Thor are 3 grandfather names of 50 something year old grandfathers I know.

5 different people reading this thread just decided their future grandpa name is going to be Thor and no one will be able to talk them out of it