Names for Grandparents: What do you call yours?

[finn's mom]

I've always just called my grandparents "Grandma X" or "Grandpa X"...replacing X with their last name. David's mother is German, so she and David's dad will be "Oma" and "Opa" to Clara. And, my mother sent me an email the other day, asking what I thought of "Grammy" and "Grampy" for her and my dad. Apparently, that's what my dad called his grandparents, and I love it. As long as Clara agrees, that's what they'll be called. I know sometimes children come up with other names, based on what they find easiest to say.

So...I'm curious...what do you call your grandparents? And what do your children call their grandparents?

[Catty1]

On my dad's side, we also used "Grandma X(last name)". Never knew out grandads.

When we were younger, I THINK we 'had' to use "Grandmother X". I remember using that, but not often.

Mom's side? "Baba"

[cassiesmom]

My brother's kids and my sister's daughter have always called them Grandma and Papa. They called their great grandmother Gigi (get it - great grandmother = GG). Which became The Geeger, the Geegster, the Geeginator, etc.

[gemini9961]

Oma and Opa for my mother's parents. Grandma and Pappy for my father's parents. I asked my parents to pick what they would like their grandchild to call them, same with my in-laws. I think my mother will go with Oma, she told me she doesn't want to be a Grandma.

Since my SIL is having a baby next week I suppose whatever names my in-laws choose for her will have to be the same for us since it will be the same set of grandparents (my in-laws).

[prechrswife]

My parents are Lao Lao (Mandarin for maternal grandmother) and Papa to our kids. My mother-in-law is Grandmama, and my late father-in-law was Granddaddy.

My maternal grandparents, who are still living, are Nanny and Paw (not sure how that spelling evolved from Pa, but it did). My paternal grandparents were Mamaw and Papaw.

[finn's mom]

How cute is Gigi?! That's neat! And easy to say! My ex's family called their grandparents Memaw and Pappy. Their great grandmother was Bemaw. I think my friend called her grandpa Tataw or something like that.

[sparks19]

I always called both sets of grandparents just grandma and grandpa... no name following.

Hannah doesn't call them anything yet but my in laws want to be called "Grammy" and "Granddad" although my MIL wants my FIL to change his to pop pop or something lol. she asked what my parents wanted to be called and I was kinda like "uhhh... just grandpa and grandma" I always thought everyone called their grandparents that unless it was like german or something where there is a name in that language that you call them lol.

so my mom is grandma, my dad is grandpa, my step dad is papa (that's what his grand kids call him so we followed suit) my MIL is Grammy and my FIL is granddad unless my MIL can convince him to change it lol

[CountryWolf07]

Papa and Nana. For both sides.

[carole]

never had any grandparents, but my children call my parents nana and grandad, my great nephew call my sister nana and her hubby pop and my mother greatnana, when i become a grandparent i will be referred to as Nana too hopefully.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I call my grandparents grandma and grandpa followed by their first names. Apparently my brother started this when he was really little, and now all the grandkids call my mom's mom "Grandma Betty." It just stuck!

I'm not sure what Lyra will call Eric's parents, but my mom is already "Grandma Peany-Butter." When I was in college I studied abroad in Russia, and my mom watched the dogs while I was gone. When I got home (after only a summer) Marta was so fat from all the peanut butter that she could no longer jump on the bed! My mom loves to spoil, and dogs are no exception... we started to joke that the dogs called her "Granda Peany-Butter" and my mom says Lyra can call her that, too. [Even though we have lived in a different state for over 3 years, Marta and Dell still get excited when I tell them Grandma Peany-Butter is coming].

[Catherinedana]

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. ) 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!

[IRescue452]

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.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

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.

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.

[Daisy and Delilah]

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.

[Lillycat]

......Gracky?