Nicknames for Grandparents

My Dads parents are Grampy & Grammy and my mom's parents are Nannie & Papa. Pretty simple I guess.

 BF's grandparents are "Opa" (grandather) and "Oma" (grandmother), respectively. I believe it's German, although I think is the same in a couple of other languages, too.

I always called my maternal gradparents "Gramma" (or "Gramma [first name]";) and "Grampa" (or "Grampa Doc," since he was a doctor).

Personally I really like Oma and Opa - easy to say, even for little kids, and yet still dignified. :) 

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when I was younger it always bummed me out when I only found 1 or 2 Granddad cards each holiday when I was trying to find a card for him.

Yeah, I have a Granddad too. And a lot of the time the cards I DID find said "Grandad" which just doesn't make ANY sense. Unless he's my grand AD. Grr...

I have a Grandma & Granddad, and a Grandmom. My maternal grandfather died when my mom was little..though I imagine he would've gone by Granddad, in which case my paternal grandfather would have had a different name (only have one cousin on that side, and my sisters and I were 4 through 14 when he was born).

My Mom is Grandmommy. My nephew's other grandparents are Grandma and Papa. My aunt and uncle go by Grammy and Pop-Pop (and his second wife is Grandma), and my uncle's mother is GG. My Grandmom still goes by Grandmom to her great-grandkids. That's why my Mom and aunt are Grandmommy and Grammy...neither can be Grandmom, though they both wanted to be, lol.

Oh yeah, and my cousin's kids other grandfather is Papo. Their grandmother passed away, but she was Mamo.

My favorite grandparent names are Grandmom and Granddad. Not weird, but not as common as Grandma and Grandpa (though strangely, I don't know any Grandpas.. lol).

We have two Grammies and two Pop-pops.  Patrick's grandmother (dad's mom) was Mee-maw.  Yes, another of those "hillbilly" names.  But I'm frankly pretty proud of that side of the families southern foothills roots.  Not technically hillbillies but their values are all the same.  Being Mee-maw or Pop-pop means something VERY important, it's not just a funny name game.

My kids make cards for their grandparents so finding commercial cards with the right names printed on them isn't an issue.   

 We had/have:

King - maternal grandfather, everyone called him this including his kids and people who knew him in Houston and Maine. LOL

Nana - maternal grandmother

Baga - paternal grandfather

Gram - maternal grandmother

Berto - my father-in-law

MeMe - my mother-in-law

Most of these came from what the eldest grandchild christened each person, and I agree that's a fun way to let it unfold. 

My maternial grandmother - Granny (deceased)

My material grandfather - Grandpa Walter (deceased)

My paternal grandmother - Grandma

My paternal grandfather - Grandpa

My Mom - Nana

My Dad - Bompa (my niece Katie couldn't say Grandpa so it ended up as Bompa)

Dh's parents - Grandma and Grandpa

My paternal grandparents are Granny and Grandpa.  Maternal were Gran and Papa.  Interesting story:

When my neices were born my SIL decided that since her own mother (who already had grandkids) was already Granma then my Mum should be Mamo which is Welsh.  My Mum is not Welsh but Irish and she was quite hurt that my SIL just decided for her.

Our kid(s) will call her whatever she wants them to call her since she will be the only living Grandmother.  I don't see any problem with having a Grandpa Ed and a Granpa David.

I only have one grandparent and I call her Gram or Grandma. When I was little I used to call her Gweeda...lol! My parents have no idea why, because no one ever called her that, but I called her it for a long time. We still laugh about it!

I called my great grandma and great grandpa(my Mom's grandparents on her Dad's side) Grandma and Grandpa. We never bothered with 'great'. I miss my Grandma now.....

I don't have grandfathers one died before I was born and the other one (father's dad) died when I was here in the USA I never interacted with him. I didn't meet him in Mexico either because he was nuts, sad to say but its true, he use to go around Chapala and other local towns claiming he had a magical stone that had been send to him by the Virgen of Guadalupe and that he could heal anybody with it. His wife or my abuela never liked us if whe went to her for a hug or something she use to kick us out of her house, I don't remember I was little but my mom does. I just call her Abuela Maria out of respect but no feelings there haven't seen her in like 13 years and she doesn't like talking with us last time she called there was no feelings there. My mom's mom never talked to her either for the same number of years but we just call her Mama Goya and thats what her sons and my cousins call her even people not from the family. Its kind of sad not having grandparents especially when you enjoy stories from the past like my brother and I do.  

My mom's mom died before i was bonr, and her dad was in australia while we grew up here.  we just referred to him as gradndad.  now my dad's parents, well, she didn't want to appear "old" and had the first grandson call them Big Mommy and Big Daddy--as did all the rest of us that followed--8 more grandkids.  Mom have no parents here, and daddy's oldest brother's wife having no parents, there ws no "competition" there for daddy's mom.  But the youngest son's wife had parents right there in helittle town.   there was big time comptition.  well, they would not be oudone by my our  parents have a "different and special" set of names, so they had my cousins and their cousins, aunts side, call them Sweet Mama and Sweet Papa.

our boys called both sets of our parents Grandma and PawPaw.  our grandkids cll eme MamMoo and called hubby PawPaw.  oldest grandsoncold not say Grandma, and started the MamMoo.  They tried to work with him to say Grandma, but I said MamMoo was just fine with me.  so, i remaind MamMoo.

one of my cousins married a girl with a little girl and the little girl tried to call my cousins mom by her name, Shirley, but it came out Soocie.  And that became her name to all furture greandkids.

 My nephew called my dad Burgen Granddad.  We never knew why. 

My great niece calls HER nan (my sister) Namoo.

And chelsea... yeah I insist in spelling it grandDAD as well!  I hate the other spelling!

 One of my grandmothers died before I was born, but the other one was "grandma".  Both of my grandfathers were "grandpa", but to avoid confusion, my mother would refer to her father as "Papa" and my dad's father as "Florida Grandpa", since that was where he lived.  Mike's boys call his father "Grampy".  He lets me call him "Dad":-))  I don't think my dad would mind...

In my little redneck part of the woods, most of us don't have grannies or grandpas, and we certainly don't have anything formal like grandfather or grandmother. We have maw-maws and paw-paws. We also have ma-mas and pa-pas (but we say it really fast, so it sounds like muh-maw and muh-maa...anyway...) Because we say it differently, that's how we distinguish between grandparents. My dad's parents were always maw-maw and paw-paw. My mom's parents were ma-ma and pa-pa, although when she wrote stuff to us, like birthday cards, that grandma always wrote memeire since we're pretty French down here.

This thread is great!

I just have had all my life my maternal grandmother, she is Colombian and we (al 381726 cousins) call her: "nonita". My father's parents were in a lot of my before bed stories, so my dad called them "Vovô" and "Avô" which is the brazilian way to call the grandparents. My DH calls his grands "abuela", "abuelo".

My mom won't let be called "abuela" so my nieces call her "Mumú", but DH makes so much fun about it, I think when out time comes, she or our baby will find out another name for her.