Names for Grandparents: What do you call yours?

I have no recall of either set of grandparents. My father's parents had passed before I was born, and my mother's passed when I was barely a toddler.

My kids called both sets of grandparents Grandma and Grandpa.

My granddaughter calls me Grammy. My ex and I split when she was very little and just starting to talk, but she called him Poppy. She calls her other grandparents Oma and Granddad.

My grandson calls me Grammy. He doesn't know my ex at all. He calls his other grandparents Mom-mom and Pop-pop.

If my ex comes up in a discussion between the adults and the grandkids are present, he is referred to as "your grandfather".

LOL, J calls my mom, Gay Gay. I don't know why, really. It beats what he used to call her- Gracky! LOLOL.

I think G-parents should be 'allowed' to choose the name they are called. To me, Grandma (last name) and Grandpa (last name) are just too cold and bland. Bring on the cuteness, the unordinary, etc. It usually tells a story and brings fond memories to those early years.

to my kids, they used Nanny & PawPaw for my folks.

To our girl grandkids, we are Meemaw & PawPaw
to the boys we are simply gramma and grampa

their other grandmother is Mimi :)

We were a little formal...
I knew three of my grandparents, who are all now long gone...
Grandmother Mary (my mother's Mother-never knew G-father on that side)
Grandmother Nellie (my father's Mother)
Bapa Harold (Nellie's husband, not my actual grandfather, she had been widowed and remarried, but he was the only one I knew).

Of course, to go with that, my mother was ALWAYS "Mother"-no nickname until I got older and wanted to antagonize her. ;)

On my mum's side it was Grandmama, my granfather had died before we came along. On my fahter's side it was pepe and meme (pronounced the way Karen spelled it.)

All of my grandparents died before I could talk. :( With my own children they called my parents and hubby's parents (Nana and PopPop and Grandmother and PopPop respectively). My grandchildren call me Nannie (to be different from Nana) and my hubby is PopPop to them.

My co-worker, who is Italian, just had her first grandson. He will call her Nonna (when he learns to talk...LOL!) and her hubby will be Poppi.

Mom's side: Grammy & Papa
Dad's side: Grampa fishin' buddy (long story!) and GranMaria (Grandma Maria)

Cute thread!:)

Never knew my grandfathers, but we called my grandmothers "Grandma". If we were referring to them when they were not there, we used Grandma Costa or Grandma LaPlaca. If you called Grandma Costa "nana" or "nanny", you got a bop on the head! I think it's because they called her mother that (my great grandma who died just before I was born).

I don't have kids (except for my birds and I refer to my mom as "Grammy" to them. :D) but my cousin's kids call my aunt "Honey"! That's what she always called them when they were babies and they started calling her that back. . .pretty cute!

They may just eventually make up their own names so it might not matter what your folks want to be called!

Grandma and grandpa first name: my mom's parents
Grandma and grandpa last name: my father's parents

I don't know that there are many other options for people born and raised in WI. All the people I know that use names besides grandma and grandpa are from elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by IRescue452

I don't know that there are many other options for people born and raised in WI. All the people I know that use names besides grandma and grandpa are from elsewhere.

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I was born in NY and lived there until I was 13. I never heard anyone call their grandparent anything other than grandma and grandpa (usually followed by their last name, sometimes their first) until I moved to Florida. I was truly shocked to learn all of the different names people called their grandparents down here. It was all very foreign to me.

My son calls my Mother, Garney, because that's all he could say. My daughter calls her Granny. They didn't get to meet my Dad.

They call their paternal grandparents Mamaw and Papaw.

......Gracky?

We called our grandparents (my dad's parents) Grammie and Grampie when talking to them. I remember writing them letters spelling those words out. My mom's mom was Grammie too. My mom's dad had died before I was born. I was the first grandchild. When talking about the grandmothers, we used where they were from to tell them apart. There was Grammie Florida and Grammie Cape (Cape Cod). We didn't live near either one of them since we were in Tennessee. Once we grew up, we call them both Grandma. We were the only grandchildren on my mother's side since she was an only child. My dad had a brother that had two sons. They lived near Grandma Cape and their other grandparents. They used to call her Grammie Belle (her name is Rosa Belle) and her husband was Grampie Joe. Now that my brother has children, they call her Granny. My mom's mother died about 5 years ago, but they called her great grandma. My mom and dad are Grandma and Grandpa to them. Their other grandparents are Grandma and Poppy.

I called my Mom's parents just Grandma and Grandpa. When Mom married my (step)Dad they became Grandma Bonnie and Grandpa Louie and Grandma Katie and Grandpa Ken. As us kids got into texting our only living grandmother (Bonnie) became G-ma. My Uncle Tom's kids called her Ding-Ding. Grandpa was Ding-Dong. Dustin calls his grandmother Nonnie. He has no idea where that came from.

I don't know what are children will call our parents. I guess I'll just let it come natural. Though Dustin just suggested Granny Num-Num. :rolleyes: :D

I called my grandparents Grama and Granpa (last name). Although I never knew my fathers dad. We couldn't say just the last initial because they were the same letter. :p

My nieces call my parents Grama and Granpa and my SILs parents Nana and Papa. They called their stepgrandma Grama Billie, but she is no longer living. I'm actually not sure what they call their Nana's husband. I think just by his first name.

Bruce's nephew calls his mom Grammie and the other Grandmother Gran B. B for her last name. And like Cataholic said, they chose the names they wanted him to call them.