Names for Grandparents: What do you call yours?

[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?

[Moesha]

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.

[Andie]

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.

[Taz_Zoee]

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.

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.

[Cataholic]

......Gracky?

OMG, you don't remember that? LOL...it was a cross between gracky and graggy...

[Husky_mom]

this is really weird but I´ll try to best explain..(translation/meaning wise.. not weird as cataholic´s case..lol.. no offense just I found it fun )

the formal way is grandmother/ grandfather (abuela/abuelo) but I ´ve never liked that so i always went with a diminutive more cute way Grandma(only had one) (abuelita).. and now you wonder what about grandpas.. well.. one was Tata (a kind of mexican form of Papaw) and the other one was Yeyo (it was a morph from abuelo mispronounced.. turned into ayeyo.. then finalized as Yeyo)

now for my kids grandparents.. on hubby´s side they are grandma/grandpa or the grannies (abues)

and for my side they are Tito and Tita.. short for abuelita haha.. more like abuelitita.. an even smaller diminutive..lol.. this one stuck because the person that helps my mom with the cleaning referred to them like that to my kid and stuck.. they all love it though

[Cataholic]

this is really weird but I´ll try to best explain..(translation/meaning wise.. not weird as cataholic´s case..lol.. no offense just I found it fun )

Maybe we will come up with a nickname for YOU!