Grandparent nicknames

[tiffbot]

MIL wanted to be called Bubba when DS was born and it stuck. He calls her that now. He calls my mom 'mama' or 'mama d' (her first name initial) which I'm sure will just change to grandma as his speaking gets better. Both grandpas are currently 'papa', which I'm also sure will change as he talks better too.

I called both sets of my grandparents 'grandma/pa first name', no real creativity there haha. So I didn't think about it too much when I got pregnant.

[erbear]

We've just been calling them gramma/Grammy and pap-pap. My nieces used to distinguish between sets of grandparents by adding their first names for my parents and last for their more formal grandparents.

[carolyngrace]

My nephews on both sides "picked" the names. GanGan & Pop Pop for my in-laws. MeMaw & Boppa for my parents.

Growing up both sets were just grandma and grandpa. That's what I would have preferred. Also it's annoying we have to inherit what the other kids picked lol

[periwinkledaydreams]

My parents chose Grammy and Grampy when my sister had her first son 11 years ago. In his toddler speech, he called them Mimi and BeepBeep, and it has stuck for 11 years and 5 grandchildren lol. So my parents are Mimi and BeepBeep, often shortened to Meem and Beep. Were used to it by now and its cute and a bit different and suits my parents. Notice how I said "my parents ARE Mimi and BeepBeep". They've definitely become their names at this point!

Her other grandma is Grandma, also very well established by her already having 6 grandchildren.

Her great grands are Mama and Papa (SOs), and Papa and Grandma First Name (mine). These are what we call them and she will refer to them the same

[kemdupuis]

We have the first grandchild on both sides, so nothing has been established. We asked our parents to choose what they'd like to be called,and I guess we'll just have to wait and see if it gets changes or sticks.

DH's parents are French Canadian, so they obviously went for Memere and Pepere. His two grandmothers are both Grande Memere Lastname.

My mother will not make a decision, so we've been calling my parents straight up Grandma and Grandpa, but my mom news saying "I don't think I want to be 'grandma'" annoying. I think she is leaning toward Nonna (dad would be Nono) because of our Italian heritage. We'll see, though! My grand parents are just Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Lastname.

[seannemairi]

My parents are momo and poppy (my mom's nickname is mo) h's mom is granny or gran (as decided by dd's older cousins) dh's dad and step mom are pa and mimi then we have my grandparents and dh's half brother's dad and his wife who are part of the fam too. We have a lot of grandparents hahah.

[stinybean]

Both my mom and MIL are Nana. DH hates that, but DD is not the first grandchild on either side so we can't do anything about it. DH has begun to refer to them as Nana 1 & 2. Somehow my mom got to be 1 (go mom! ) My dad is Po (not Pa) amongst other names. My grandparents are grandma & grandpa and DH's grandmother is Nanny. He also hates that his grandmother is Nanny because it's so close to Nana, but obviously this is well established, so I don't see how we would change it or why. As you can see DH is very opinionated about grandparent names.

[mirage86]

All grandparents and great grandparents are Grandma/pa last name. There have been a few variations here and there but only to clarify which grandparent is being referenced.
All of these different names remind me of how confused I was as a kid when I heard someone on TV talk about their nana. I remember thinking, "Why don't I have a nana? Who's nana??" Haha.

[Widget123]

I love how fun and unique some of these names are!

MIL and FIL have been firmly established as Grandma and Grandpa for years. My mom was admit she didn't want to be Grandma anyway since that is what we call her mother. When I was pregnant with DD, we settled on Gran and Pappy for my parents but DD still doesn't call either of them by those names or really any name. I think they might end up going by something else depending on what DD decides to call them. We also see my SIL's parents several times a year since they are local; they go by Ba and Pa and that is what we refer to them as.

[pghtruelove]

J has lots of grandparents

My foster parents: Mimi and Pappy(both their choice)
My Bio Mom and Step-Dad: Grandma and PawPaw(that's what me and my siblings call our stepdad)
My Bio Dad: Pap
My Grandmothers: all want to be called Granny

His Parents: Grandma and Grandpa
His Grandmother: Mamaw(what he calls her)

MIL wanted to be called Mamaw but both SO and Inrefuse to refer to her as that because he only wants to refer to his gramma as that. This pleases me. Also I have a weird family situation so J has three sets of grandparents on my side(my adoptive parents passed so no name for them except Grandma/pa Sparks)

[dmoney]

My mom is Safta which is grandma in Hebrew, and my dad is Pop Pop Mike, My MIL is Bubby and my FIL is Pop Pop Wally. Now my FIL is remarried but they have only been remarried for 4 years. So his new wife will just be called by her first name. My FIL is not happy about this but, she did not raise my DH, she is just his dads new wife. So that is what we are going with. IT does cause some tension because her daughter's son calls my FIL Pop Pop, but that was their choice. He has asked us to have DD call his wife grandma, but its one thing DH is not budging on and since it is his dad I am letting him fight that battle.

[alayne926]

My mom is Memaw and my dad is Pawpaw. My oldest nephew started calling them that when he was younger, so it stuck for all the kids.

My MIL is Grandma and FIL is Pop. They wanted to be called that.

[gigi3126]

My dad and step mom are grampy and grammy because that's what my niece calls them. My ILs are just grandma and grampa because that's how we refer to them. They didn't really have a preference. My mom wanted to be abuelita because she thinks she's Hispanic (she's definitely not), but I don't know that he'll ever actually call her that because she has yet to meet him...sigh.

[gilder40]

My mom is Bobbo. Her first name is Barbara, and my cousins couldn't say Aunt Barbara when they were itty bitty, so they called her Aunt Bobbo. They still do and they're all married and grown up lol. I thought it was neat, so I presented it to my mom and she liked it. My dad is just pawpaw.

[mrsdee1982]

My parents and grammy and granddad

My in-laws are grammy and poppa

[nchauhan]

We asked my in-laws what they wanted to be called:

MH's mom and step dad will be grandma and pop pop
MH's dad and step mom will be grandpa and grandma first name

My side of the family has specific names that designate each relationship, including siblings.
My mom and dad are naani and nana and my sister is maasi. My in laws liked the idea of having specific names (his mom and dad would be dadi and dada) but they thought it would be too confusing for their other grand kids.

I'm still going to teach my kid all the Indian words for each family member

[Bluedaisy]

My parents and grandparents and my fil are grandma/pa or great grandma/pa and then the first name to distinguish if needed. The only one that is different is my mil who insists on being called the Finnish word for grandma which is mumu (pronounced moo moo). I think it sounds stupid and also technically Finnish has separate words for paternal and maternal grandmothers and that is the one for maternal grandmothers but she likes it because her mom used it. I always pretend not to remember and refer to her as grandma firstname

[Flick]

My mom and dad wanted to be plain old grandma and grandpa but I'm going to push for Mamaw and Papaw because my moms side is Mamaw and papaw and I want to keep it alive.

SO's mom asked to be called Mimi and his dad is just grandpa but I'll probably hint towards Pop pop.

[tjanca22]

My parents are Grandpa and Nana, which were already established by nieces and nephews.
E is the first grandchild on DH's side so we've just gone with Grandpa for my FIL but MIL wants to be called Gagie (not sure how to spell it but sounds like gah-geee) which I'm not a fan of so we've been calling her grandma.

[jessila]

My parents are Grandma & Grandpa. My grandparents are Granny & Grandpa (as well but we hardly see them so we don't differentiate).
MIL & FIL are Nonni and Papa (Vinny). H's grandparents are Nana and Pap Pap. The Pap Pap and Papa thing are confusing but it all works out.

[silv3rlining]

MIL/FIL are Grandma/Grandpa
My mom is Grammie (but for some reason DS calls her Shu)
My dad (who will probably never meet LO but has seen DS twice) is Pop Pop.

[musicfrk2002]

My mom and step-dad are grandma and grandpa. MIL is mamoo (pronounced mah-moo), which was already established by my niece.

[Deleted]

My mom is Gramma. My dad is Opa. ILs are Nana and Papa. DS1 calls my XILs Baka and Deda, the Croatian names for grandmother/grandfather.

[Deleted]

I guess we are really boring. We just call them grandma and grandpa.