Names for Grandparents: What do you call yours?

[blue]

Both of my grandfathers died when I was very young, both of my step grandfathers died before I could even meet them. My stepmoms Mom I have only met once and I simply called her Maam.

My dads mom, my brother and I couldnt pronounce our last name so we called her Granny Mo and it stuck, our moms mom we called grandma C.

[Genny]

I call my grandmother 'Booboo' and my Grandfather 'Paw-Paw'

[wolfsoul]

On my dad's side: Grandma Zilkie (Zilkie is the last name) and Papa.
On my mom's side: Grandpa Philpott (Philpott is the last name) and Grandma Gray (I couldn't pronounce "Joy" when I was a baby so I'd say "Gray" and it stuck). I couldn't call her Grandma Philpott because that was my great grandma. My other great grandma was Nanny.

[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

[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.

[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!

[Husky_mom]

Maybe we will come up with a nickname for YOU!

lol.. kids so come up with the weirdest names aren´t they... haha..

completely off topic.. here we call bumps "bordos" but my kid called them "sales".... could be translated into salts or as in meaning the action to go out

[Lillycat]

........just chose to remember it for a teeny-tiny minute.......smile

[cassiesmom]

My oldest niece had trouble with "Aunt Elyse" when she was little - so I became "Cease" -- and that has stuck! My nephew called me Aunt Elyte ("aunta leet"), my second-youngest niece called me "Aunta ease" and my youngest niece actually called me grandma for a few months. Most of the time she would just point to whoever she wanted, though Over time they all have pretty much dropped the "Aunt" title. Whatever they want to call me (within reason) is fine with me!

Thanks,
Cease

[Marigold2]

I called my fathers parents Oma and Opa as we are German. I called my adoptive grandfather, Grandpa. My grandkids call me GG. I am gorgeous grandma. I like being a GG.

[catnapper]

Hubby and I are "grandmom" and "grandpop". I sorely wanted Cameron to come up with something cute for me, but he didn't. He called hubby "Gurk-gum" for the longest time and hubby hated it. We finally got him to pronounce grandpop properly.

Oh, an apparently Cam had a HUGE issue with calling his father's mom "Grandmom" he said he already had a grandmom and didn't want another. So she's now got her first name tacked onto the end of Grandma.


My coworker's mom insists on being "Glamma" as in glammor. and she's serious. I am glad her mom didn't see or hear my reaction.

[karyn674]

For us Grandmom and Grandpas are Nanna and Nannu in Maltese, for short we call them both Nan

[Cataholic]

My oldest niece had trouble with "Aunt Elyse" when she was little - so I became "Cease" -- and that has stuck! My nephew called me Aunt Elyte ("aunta leet"), my second-youngest niece called me "Aunta ease" and my youngest niece actually called me grandma for a few months. Most of the time she would just point to whoever she wanted, though Over time they all have pretty much dropped the "Aunt" title. Whatever they want to call me (within reason) is fine with me!

Thanks,
Cease

Those are some good ones.

Slightly off topic (but you started it) I am totally fine with what people call me, as long as it is within reason. I was in J's classroom helping last Friday and the teacher asked what I wanted to be called and I said my first name. She said, "okay, well, would MS first name be fine?" LOL, I wanted to say not really, just call me first name, but figured I wouldn't be invited back to help out if I didn't get with the program.

Just not into all that Ms/Mr stuff.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Those are some good ones.

Slightly off topic (but you started it) I am totally fine with what people call me, as long as it is within reason. I was in J's classroom helping last Friday and the teacher asked what I wanted to be called and I said my first name. She said, "okay, well, would MS first name be fine?" LOL, I wanted to say not really, just call me first name, but figured I wouldn't be invited back to help out if I didn't get with the program.

Just not into all that Ms/Mr stuff.

I am a docent at a local historic site. We give tours to 40,000 fourth graders every year. That is lots of kids.

One of the more experienced docent told me - "always introduce yourself as Ms. Last Name - not your first name." So I changed to that and I found it DID make a difference in the behavior of the children.

Jo, perhaps that teacher knows this too and was trying to politely nudge you in that direction?

Kids in school know that a Mr/Ms is someone they must listen to, someone in charge. First name - not so much....