What is your grandparent "name"?

[phorsenuf]

My grandparents we called Nonnie and Grandpa. I'm going to be a grandma next month (yay!) but haven't decided on a name yet. I'd like to keep the tradition of Nonnie going but I just don't see myself as a Nonnie.

 

[goofyernmost]

I am not a Grandparent yet...my oldest child is 16 and I'm hoping we have a few years before that happens.

My kids call my parents Grandma Elaine and Grandpa Jim and my husbands parents Grandma Marj and Grandpa Walt. It just kind of happened...we were trying to call them all Grandpa and Grandma and it was just too confusing.

I called mine Grandpa and Granddad. My grandmothers passed away before I was born.

I don't understand the confusing part. I always called my grandparents, on both sides, Grandma and Grandpa. I was never confused.

When my grandchildren were born, both sets of Grandmothers were way to vain to be called grandma so they settled on Nana. That did cause some confusion for some reason so they labeled them according to what they saw. My x-wife was Candy Nana because she always had candy for them. One of the others always said, Hi sunshine whenever she saw them so she got the label of Nana Sunshine. All my grandkids call me Grandpa, well one calls me Grandpy but it's close enough. His grandparents on his fathers side are known as Grandma and Poppa.

While they were still young their Great Grand-Father was still alive. They called him...Grandpa-Grandpa. Makes sense I guess!

 

[pixiewings71]

My DGD is almost 3, she's got about 2 weeks left before her birthday. I was "Gram" for a while, until she decided she wanted to call me "Mom-mom" so that's what I am. DBF is "Pop-pop". BTW I'm turning 41 this year so 3 years ago I was turning 38, I was 37 when I got the Gma title, and it's been absolutely fine with me.

My kids call my Mom Grammy, my Step-Dad Pa, my Dad Grandpa. On their Father's side their Grandma is also wanting to be Grammy, but the girls usually call her Grandma because that's what she was for them for years, her DH is Grandpa "hisname", their Grandpa is Grandpa "hisname" and his wife is basically just her name. lol

 

[rndmr2]

I called my Maternal Grandmother Grandmom. She was Great Grandmom to my neices and nephews. She is the only grandparent I knew, we have referred to my both grandfathers as Grandpop last name but I never met them.

My parents became Mom Mom and Pop Pop when my sisters first one was born (they were like 39 or so) and that stuck for her 3 and my brother's 2. If I have kids (hopefully some day) My dad will be Pop Pop (my Mom passed away in 08 but we will refer to her as Mom Mom).

In Law's parents are Granny and Papa to our nephews, so I assume that will be the same for our kids. His dad is gone now but the older one remembers him so he talks about him sometimes.

My mom and my aunt called their grandmother Mee-Mom and their Great Grandmother "Old Mee-Mom" LOL I always got a kick out of that one!

 

[MomofKatie]

I have quite a few years until I am a grandmother (DD is 13). But I do have several HS friends who already have one or more grandkids. We are all in our mid 40's- it seems weird that there are lots of grandmothers/grandfathers from my graduating HS class.

My parents are Grammy and Grampy. DH's parents are Grandma and Granddad. DD calls DH's grandma Great Grandma.

 

[MrsFerrell]

my DD calls
--my mom Gammy (she thinks shes too young to be a grandma.. Shes almost 46 though her facebook claims 35 )
--My grandparents Maw Maw and Paw Paw
--F-i-L PaPa Mark
--M-i-L and Step F-i-L Lola and Lolo (filipino for grandma and grandpa)

 

[Liandro]

In the time before dinosaurs when my grandparents still were amongst us we called them grandma and grandpa whit the television. Living in a very small place they were the first people in the town with such an amazing device and we loved it.

 

[JaneBanks]

We call/called my grandparents -

Maternal - Gram and Grampa
Paternal - Nanny and Gramps/Pops

DH -

Maternal - Nanna and Pop-Pop
Paternal - Grandma ( he never met his grandfather)


When my cousins children were babies, they would call my Aunt and Uncle, Meema and Peepa but now they are Granny and Poppy.

 

[NYEmomma]

DD calls...

My parents: Grandma & Pappy
DH's dad & stepmmom: Grandma Lastname & Grandpa Lastname
DH's mom: Oma
My maternal grandparents: Great Grandma & Great Grandpap
My paternal grandmother (while she was living): Nannie*
DH's grandmother: GiGi

* I called her Nan & when all the great grandkids started arriving, they all just called her Nan/Nana/Nannie too.

My mom could've been a young grandparent -- my parents had me when she was young & I got married at 21. If I had a kid relatively soon after we get married, she would've been 42-ish. But I'm a procrastinator (and had problems conceiving) so she was 48 when DD was born.

 

[HelenePA]

I have a while to go before I'm a grandma! but growing up all my grandparents were Grammy and PopPop... when they were in the same room together I'd just use their first name with it... Grammy Helen, Grammy MaryLou... I'd love to be Grammy, but not for another 20 years

 

[sparkyboy]

We are Nana and Papa.
My DSis and BIL are Bama and Homey.

 

[violetrose]

Our kids call DH's parents Grandma and Granddad, and my parents Grandma K. (maiden name) and Grandpop K.

I haven't thought about what I want to be called and hope I won't have to think about it for at least 5 or 6 years.

 

[disneymom2evie]

I called my mom's mom Maw Maw. All the other grandparents died before I was born. My daughter calls my mom MiMi (my mom said she's too young to be a maw maw) and my dad Paw Paw Jerry. She calls my husbands dad Paw Paw Joe. Then she calls my husbands mom Maw Maw and his step dad Na Na. He wanted to be called GrandDad, but she decided on Na Na. Joe's (the husband) brothers little girl calls Sam (the step dad) Pumpkin. He was destined to have a girly nickname, haha. Evie (my daughter) calls Sam's mom Memere (me-mare) because they're a French family and they like the old french names =)

 

[Dragonfly_34]

My kids call my inlaws Grandma and Grandpa.....although DS14 calls them G-ma and G-pa which is what all the teenagers call them. They even sign cards and gifts that way.

With my birth family, I only met my paternal grandmother once so never called her anything. My maternal grandmother is called Gramy. Both of my grandfathers passed away before I was born.

My kids call my maternal grandmother Great-Gramy, my birth father Granddad and my birth mother Nona (which is what she wanted to be called).

With my foster family, I called my paternal grandmother Grandma and my paternal grandfather Pop-pop. My maternal grandfather passed away before I was born but my siblings called him Granddaddy. My maternal grandmother is calld Mommom (pronounced Mum-mum).

My kids call my Mommom "Big Mommom" and my foster mom "Little Mommom". However, they are the only ones who call my foster mom by that name. When my siblings and I had kids, she let the firstborn child decide what that family would call her....so she is called Gammy, Mammy, Mamaw, Grammy and Little Mommom. Kind of confusing when we're singing happy birthday to her but it works! :~)

I don't have grandchildren yet but I like the way Mommom sounds....although one of my cousins calls her grandmother "Honey" which I think is so sweet.

 

[Curiouser&curiouser!]

I called my grandparents Memere & Pepere and Nana & Grampy.

My son calls his grandparents Grandma & Grandpa and Nana & Papa.

 

[NikitaZee]

My kids call both sets of grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. They call their great-grandpa Gramps.

 

[Maridw]

Originally I was going to be Grammie and my DH was Grumpy. That's what my best friend's parents were to her son.

Somehow I became Mimi. It is a bit easier for my GDD to say since she is just starting to talk. DH is still going to be Grumpy.

Another reason we are something other than Grandma and Grandpa is that is what my DD calls her grandparents and decided it would be easy for her DD. My sister's kids call my mom Gram, so the great-grandkids call her Gram too.

We also have this thing where my mom signs letters or notes gRAM, mOM, or gRANDMA.

 

[Bilberry]

It is kind of cute, but my youngest nephew calls his grandfather, G-dad. Not sure where it came from, but the name stuck and now we pretty much all call my father G-dad from time to time.

Mom is called Grams.

 

[mrs.sammich]

When we found out we were expecting, we let the grandparents and g.grandparents -to-be chose their names. They picked grandmom (first name), mum mum, grammy, granny, pop pop, poppy, and PawPaw. Both our parents were divorced, some remarried- We had no 'repeats' of names and they didn't communicate with each other on it.

As a kid, my grandmom was called Dotty by her sisters growing up. One sister as a baby called her Ditty and it stuck. Flash forward to me hearing that name as a kid...I called her Diggle. She's still my Diggle.

 

[S. C.]

grandma, and sometimes granny.