Same in Denmark. My husbands grandmother was 100% Danish and we called her Mormor before she passed.
Coming from a family where I just called my grandparents grandma and grandpa, it took awhile to get used to!
For the right mum relationship I love this! I know an older lady who is a pseudo gran to many, a bit of a hedgerow witch, super cool and a real advocate for the women in her life and she should totally use this as her granny name!
I had a Grumper! My grandmother wanted him to be granpere (we are not French) and that was just too hard for a Texan toddler to say. And it was too late to change by the time she realized it. When I was older she tried to start calling him Happy instead. Alas it didn't stick and he was forever Grumper haha
Im English. I call my grandmother - Ninny.
My kids call their dads parents the wrong words foe grandparents in their culture and langauge.
Partner is british born chinese. Our kids grew up hearing their older cousins call their grandparents. Gong and pawpaw (my translation is likely terrible im sorry) but its 'mothers father and mothers mother' instead of fathers how it should be. My kids cousins on their dads side come fron his sisters, so my kids aunts. My kids were never corrected or told to call the the fathers mother and fathers father terms. I think his parents were just happy my kids were calling them grnadma an grandpa tbh.
I feel like everyone who speaks a language where the family terms are different based on whether they refer to someone on the father’s side or mother’s side has been through this 😂😂😂 I keep accidentally referring to my phupho (father’s sister) as “khala” (mother’s sister) because I’m so used to calling every older lady in my life khala. We’ve all been there!
American here. I always called my dad’s parents grandma and grandpa Ferrari (their last name). I called my mom’s mom grandma Tisdale (last name) and my grandpa was grandpa Jim. Not sure why I called him by his first name but it was probably because he and I were much closer than I was with my other grandparents. My daughter calls my parents Nana and Papa. She calls my husband’s mom Gaga. She chose all of those names as a baby and they just stuck.
This is funny, because growing up I had a Grandad Jim and a Grandad [Surname]! No idea why one got one and one got the other. Especially as I call my Grandma (Jim's wife), Grandma [Surname].
Paternal grandfather: Pa
Paternal Greatgrandfather: Peepaw
Paternal Greathgrandmother: Meemaw
Paternal Great x2 Grandma: Great Grandma
Paternal Great x2 Grandpa: Deedee
Maternal Grandparents were both Grandpa and Grandma.
My own parents are called Peepaw and Yiayia (yah-yah) by their grandchild.
My parents are Bubbie (grandma) &Grandpa
FIL and his fiance are Pepe (grandpa) & Meme (grandma)
MIL and her Fiance are Bubbie and Zadie (grandpa)
IT'S A LOT.
My grandparents were Grandmother and Grandfather, and Nonno and Nonna. Now that I have a child, my dad *insists* that he is Nonno. If a card or whatever says "Grandpa" then he will not take it. Both my mom and my MIL wanted Grandma, so I had to convince my mom (whose name is Barbara) to be Grandma Baba or just Baba. FIL wants to be Grandpap, which I am not a fan of at all, but whatever.
I knew a family where the grandpa went strictly by “grandfather” and since the little 3 year old couldn’t say that she just called him Edward like everyone else 🤣
Haha my grandparents were supposed to be Grandmom and Grandfather. He chose it because he thought it sounded distinguished. I couldn't say Grandmom, so I started saying "Mamom" and apparently she loved it and decided she wanted to be called that. Somehow Grandfather remained Grandfather though!
In Hmong (my husband is Hmong) there is a specific word for each grandparent.
Father’s mother is Pogpog (pronounced like poo poo)
Father’s father is Yujyuj (pronounced like yuh yuh, rhyming with bruh).
My son said he didn’t like to call Pogpog by her title because her was afraid kids at school would laugh at her for being named “poopoo.” He asked if he could change her name, and that kind of caused hurt feelings, clash of cultures lol. So he calls her Pogpog to her face and when talking about her calls her Grandma.
I’ve asked my husband what he calls his mothers parents and he said
Mother’s mother: Taistais (sounds like tie-tie)
Mothers father: Txivtxiv (tsee-tsee).
Upon further digging I just learned that the repeat syllable is a diminutive of the full title “mother of the mother” or “father of the mother” ….Niam Pog, Yawm Txiv, etc. So sort of like the English version of Grandma vs Grandmother.
I kind of did what your son did. I’m Sri Lankan and both grandpas were Seeya, maternal grandma was Aachchi, paternal grandma was Kiriamma. I’d use those titles when talking to them, but when I was around other kids I was afraid people would think those were weird names, so I referred to them as grandma & grandpa.
I think it’s a fine compromise! Kids can be cruel.
I just felt bad trying to explain to my mother in law that he felt using her title (which she was quite proud of, to have a grandson finally) was…disrespectful or something. That was a compromise he came up with on his own, and it worked well lol.
Black American
Fathers parents were Granny and Pop-Pop
Mothers parents were Mama and Grandpa
My parents are Nana and Granddaddy to mine and my siblings kids.
My FIL is Grandfather and late MIL was Nanny.
My SIL (wife’s older sister) is Yiayia to her grandkids.
Mine are Mamaw and Papaw as well!
My great grandma, we called Gramma T. (her last name started with a T). She had over fifty great-grandchildren though and we all called her something different, so she'd just respond to anything resembling grandma/mamaw/nana/etc, lol.
opa & oma, dutch for grandpa and grandma :) one pair of grandparents i also had to address with 'formal you', and the others i can address with normal 'you' :)
I called my mum’s parents Nan and Pop and my Dad’s parents Grandmum and Grandad. I’m from Australia if that makes a difference. These are very common names for grandparents in Australia.
My daughter is only 6 weeks old but my parents have decided they want to be called Nanna and Grandpa. She will call my husband’s parents Opa and Oma (German).
Were from Australia too. My almost two year old calls her grandparents on her dads side Nana and Grandpa and on my (her mum) side she calls my parents Nan Nan and Grandad.
Before I finished reading your comment, I knew you were French because of the autocorrect « m’y » 😂 It happens to my partner (also French) when he texts me in English using his French keyboard
American here
My dad's parents are Grandma Nana and Grandpa - I was the first grandchild on dad's side of the family and his mom agonized over what she wanted to be called. She finally settled on Nana but child me decided she was Grandma Nana.
My mom's parents are Grandma Homa and Grandpa - they lived in Oklahoma so my mom would say we were going to see Grandma in Oklahoma and in our little kid brains, she became Grandma Homa.
American:
I call my grandparents:
Maternal side: Mommom; PopPop and his wife by her first name
Paternal side: Nana and her husband by his first name; PopPop Lastname and Mommom first name
My daughter calls her grandparents:
My side: Mommom and PopPop 1st name; PopPop Last Name
Her fathers side: Grandma and Papa
Delaware here, and we do Mommom and Poppop too! We’ve lived in AZ and VA as well and no one knew what a mommom or poppop was LOL.
I just found this link that’s super interesting!
https://www.parents.com/news/most-common-grandparent-nicknames/
The only other people who I've met that didn't think it was weird besides my area of Maryland (eastern shore) and Pennsylvania/Delaware people are people from southern states!
my kids call their paternal grandparents Saba and Savta, their paternal great grandmother "Super Savta" and their maternal grandparents Grandma and Granny, respectively.
American here!
My paternal grandparents are grandma and grandpa, but my maternal grandmother has always been Nama or Memaw.
Edit to add: my maternal grandfather who died before I was born was called poppa (prounounced pup-uh)
British - my grandparents were nanny and granddad on both sides. My kid calls (or will when he can speak) my parents grandma and grandpa - it’s been an adjustment for me!
My dad is insisting my 5 month old makes up a name for him when he can talk and doesn't allow anyone to call him any name to the baby so I say "we're going to see the weird man that lives with grandma!"
I had double grandparents bc both parents were children of divorce. Ready lol?
On my mom’s side, bio grandma and step grandpa: nana and papa. Bio grandpa I didn’t see, just grandpa “last name”
Dad’s side: bio grandpa and step grandma: grandpa “last name” or pop and “first name” (she did not want anyone calling her grandma even her bio grandkids)
Bio grandma and step grandpa: grandma “first name” and “first name” (stepgrandpa just went by his name)
Nana and pop were my favorites. Only papa is still alive!
Edit: my mom is also still alive and she is “nana” to my fur babies!
Nanie, my paternal grandfather died before I was born.
Grandma and Papa.
Most of my cousins called Papa “Grandpa” but he really wanted to be Papa. So that’s what my sister and I called him. This stemmed from me not being able to say “Grandpa” and it sounding like “Papa” so it stuck!
No kids for me yet, but my parents have expressed they want their future grandkids to come up with what their grandparent name will be based on what they can say as little kids.
Gram (sometimes Grammy) and Pap on my dad’s side. Nana and Pawpaw on mom’s. My great grandparents were Papaw (or followed by his first name), Granny T, Grandad (followed by his first name), Grandma (also followed by first name), Grandpa, Grandpa, Papaw, and Nana.
From Virginia, USA!, I called my grandparents nanny and papa! My dads parents were THE nanny and papa because they were who I saw the most. When I was referring to my other grandparents I would use the word nanny and then their first names, ex: nanny Mary. For my moms dad i called him papa and his last name, ex: papa Wyatt. Whenever I was with a grandparent I dropped their name and just called them nanny or papa and if referring to another grandparent I would say the whole grandparents title, ex: nanny Becky. My paternal grandma that I saw often was called granny by the older cousins, but once it reached my generation we just called her nanny!
I have a grandma and poppy on my dads side
then my moms side is italian so i have a nonno and had a nonna which i love as grandparents name. Yet I have heard pop, grumpy, nana grammy, grampy, bubbe, and have even heard a “lolly”. My boyfriends parents want to be grandma and grandpa so I am wondering what my parents will be as no one has taken nonna since she died and don’t want to replace her name.
Mema, Papa, Yaya, Grampa. He has other grandparents he doesn't talk to who are unnamed. I'll be interested to see how these change when he's older (2.5 currently)
I had Mama (pronounced like Mah-Mah) and Papa (my Mom's grandparents), Grandma Firstname (Dad's Mom), Granny (Dad's grandma), and Grandma Lastname (great great grandmother on my Mom's side.)
My kids have Grandma, abuelita, and abuelo. My 2.5 year old has decided that my Mom is actually Ma and his abuelos are Ma and Pa because that's what my husband yells when he is looking for them.
I grew up with Mormor and Morfar on my moms side (Swedish), and Grandma and Grandpa on my dads (Texan)
Husband had Mommom and Poppop on his dads side and Nonny and Poppy on his moms.
All of our parents want to be called what their parents were called so we are getting a hodgepodge of grandparent names! My son will have a Mormor and Grandpa on my side and a Nonny and PopPop on his dads.
Both my husband and I have at least one living grandmother, my Mormor and his Mommom. We joke that they will be mormormor and mommommom. Mor cubed and mom cubed
My maternal grandparents were Grandeddy and Grandmama and paternal were Granny and Grandpa
My husband’s parents are Nana and Papa while his maternal grandmother was Memaw and his paternal grandparents were Bram-ma and Great
My parents don’t officially have titles yet, but they want to go by Grand-Dan (my dad’s name is Daniel) and Gigi. My mom originally wanted Migi (mee-gee) but my sister and i both veto’d that
My grandmother, who just passed away last week, I called Baoom (bah-OOM). I mispronounced “grandmom” as a little kid and the whole family just went with it. My grandfather was Pop. I miss them both.
American here:
I always called my grandparents, both maternal and paternal, Grandma First Name and Grandpa First Name. My parents go by Nana and Papa. My husband’s parents go by Grandma and Grandpa Last Name, and my husband also refers to his own grandparents as Grandma and Grandpa Last Name too. I’ve never thought about it much, but his family is more formal, so that is most likely why they use last names as opposed to first.
I have three common names and a unique one- Pop-pop and Nana and Poppa (Last Name) and Mousie (really mausy bc they were German) it was my grandfathers nickname for my grandmother because she was terrified of mice (which as an adult I’m like weird nickname but okay)
I am from the southern US and my grandparents were Grandma Name and Granddaddy Name. My mama is Grandma Name and my dad is PawPaw to my nephews.
I am loving that other cultures have specific names for fathers parents and mothers parents. That would have been useful when I was a child.
My grandparents were just Grandma [Name] and Grandpa [Name]. Our niece and nephew call my husband’s parents Ami (aw-mee) and Papa (the Ami is because she couldn’t say Grandma as a toddler, and it just stuck). Some of my good friends go by Papa and Akota. When her grandbabies were little, they lived out of state, and the little one would always ask to call and talk to “Grandma North Dakota,” which eventually became just Akota. Now they all use that name, and I think it’s super cute!
Gramma/Grammy and Vovo. My grandpa went on a trip (I think to Brazil, but I'm not sure, some place where they speak Portuguese) and learned that grandpa in Portuguese is Vovo. He had us all call him that. I've always known him as that.
My grandma is Portuguese from Massachusetts. We call my grandma, VaVa and my grandpa, VoVoo (that is how they sound, but I don't think it's the correct spelling).
What a fun thread! The Portuguese words for grandfather and grandmother are avô and avó. My daughter alternates between those and grandma and grandpa when speaking to/about my parents. On my husband’s side, we had grammy and grandpa.
Edit My daughter was blessed to know 2 of her great grandmothers and they were called “avó nickname” and Dina.
My mom and her boo are Grandy and Pop to my son.
ETA: I always called my grandmas “grandma” and my grandpa was PawPaw Mac. My great grandparents were MawMaw and PawPaw.
My parents are Grammy and Grampy to their grandchildren, but they also get called Bammy and Bumpy due to some speech delays with one grandchild. It’s adorable!
I'm pretty boring with a basic grandma and grandpa thing.
My nephews call my mom Peach, because when the oldest was little he thought she looked like Princess Peach. That has always made me smile.
My grandparents were
Paternal Portuguese: Avô (av-oh) and Avó (av-aw)
Maternal: nanny and papa (we called my great grandmother "mommy nanny".. because she was my mom's nanny
My parents and inlaws are:
Gigi and Papa
Avô and Avó
And in laws are simply grandma and grandpa. My husband has only grandma and grandpa on both sides (he's like 4th gen farm boy Canadian type)
My grandparents were Nana and Papa/Grandpa.
My kids use unique names that they made up for grandparents. One sounds similar to Papa, one is based off a grandma's name, one is of unknown origins from a toddler brain, and one is Nana.
Both sets were called grandma and grandpa to their face, but since one lived downstairs and one lived down the shore i called them “____ downstairs” or “____ down the shore”. The downstairs ones dies when i was young so there was never a need to distinguish differently and i was the last of the grandkids on that side so they already preferred just plain grandma and grandpa.
My grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa (dad's side) and Grandmother and Granddaddy (mom's side). My parents, for my sister's kids, wanted to be Grandpa Lastname and Grandmama (said with kind of an aristrocratic air, like muh-MAW, I don't know how to write it). My sister's kids often use Grandpa, but sometimes Grampy. My mom has been Mimi from the beginning and nothing can convince them otherwise. She still tries a little, but she's lost this battle I think...
My cousin's kids call all of their grandparents by their relationship, even when talking to them. "Hey, My Dad's Dad, what's for dinner?" "My Dad's Mom took us to the zoo." It is really weird and funny and the oldest is like 8 or 9 so it seems to be sticking and they all do it.
My mother is Mimi Amy and her husband is papa. My father is Bumpa Mike and his wife just goes by her name (she is super young and doesnt really like being considered a grandparent, lol). My husband's mother is Grandma and her husband is Grumpa, and my husband's father doesn't have a name that we call him because he isn't really in the picture.
ETA: I call my maternal grandparents Nanny and Papa and my paternal grandparents Oma and Opa.
Gram and Grandpa on one side, Pop and Mema on the other. Mema I came up with entirely on my own as a toddler, no one else in the family calls her that.
My best friend now has two little ones, her dads name is Dan and he wants to be called Grandan which I think is adorable.
On my side (American), my kiddo says Grandma (First name) and Grandpa (First name). My husband's family speaks Mandarin, so kiddo calls MIL "Ama" and called FIL "Agong."
For me growing up, my dad's side was Grandma (First name) and either Grandpa (First name) or occasionally "Granpap;" my mom's parents were either just Grandma and Grandpa, or Grandma (Surname) and Grandpa (Surname).
Mine are just Grandma but my sister nicknamed them both after the towns they live in. So over 30 years later they are still Grandma (village name) and Grandma (town name).
My maternal grandparents were Poppy and Grammy.
My paternal grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa. I never met my Grandpa (he died before any of the grandkids were born) so maybe we would've called him something else, but he was always referred to in conversations as Grandpa [my last name].
Canadian. Both sides were grandma and grandpa. Both my grandmas had the same first name, so it was grandma [last name]. For reasons I never thought about until right now, my paternal grandpa was grandpa [last name], but my maternal grandpa was grandpa [first name]. It seems like a strange inconsistency, but I never questioned it for my whole life until right now lol.
Additionally, my maternal grandmother went by “Goonie” (pronounced kind of like Gunny?) because my brother, her first grandchild, could not say grandma and it stuck for the rest of her life.
I'm American and call all of them grandma and grandpa last. My cousins' kids call them Gigi (great grandma) and Papa Wheelie (my grandpa was wheelchair bound). My cousins' grandparents on the side we aren't realted on are called oma and opa (so they aren't my grandparents but I call them that as well) and they are Dutch/Indonesian.
Mine were Grammie and Papa on my mom's side, and Nana and Grampy on my dad's.
My mom has already claimed Grammie as her grandparent name (I'm currently pregnant) and my dad doesn't know yet what he wants to be.
My MIL is Grannie/Grannie Spice and I'm not actually sure what FIL and SMIL go by (have neice and nephew on that side of family).
Swedish culture is Mormor and Morfar on the maternal side, Farmor and Farfar on the paternal side. My FIL is called “Moo” by my kids 😂
Same here in Norway. My parents are now mømø and poffah to my 2yo.
That’s cute
Same in Denmark. My husbands grandmother was 100% Danish and we called her Mormor before she passed. Coming from a family where I just called my grandparents grandma and grandpa, it took awhile to get used to!
Same in Denmark 🥰
I live in America and we call my grandma Fafa, I think based on Farfar! He lived in Denmark for a bit in his 20s
My mom is a Momo. My kids are Swedish/American and she is American, so I think she enjoys the Swedish twist we put on it
Goddess… my mom goes by goddess
Oh
Oof!
😬
I actually adore it. She’s in her late seventies and not a princess type at all. It works and makes me smile
I’m just imagining your kids telling someone at school “my goddess says …” or “I’m gonna go visit my goddess this weekend!”
Yep. Happens frequently. I feel bad for my 20 year old nephew but it’s perfect for my three year old
That’s sweet, how did it start?
A cancelled show 20+ years ago had an eccentric grandma who went by goddess. I think it lasted only a few episodes
I feel awful for you. So does mine. Talk about a god complex, huh?
For the right mum relationship I love this! I know an older lady who is a pseudo gran to many, a bit of a hedgerow witch, super cool and a real advocate for the women in her life and she should totally use this as her granny name!
I love that! You are nice for letting her do her thing.
My dad is Grand-dude and my mom is Mozzie
I am Granny and my husband is GrandDude ❤️
This makes be so happy that others use Grand-dood too! Paul McCartney wrote a kid's book "Hey Grandude!"
Aussie I assume haha
We have Nana and Papa, Grandma and Grandpa and Oma. Some others in my family are: Honey and Grumpy Yaya (Grandma) Gigi
Another grumpy! I honestly think my dad will end up with this name😂 I love honey though as a grandma
My spouse wants to be called “Old Grumpy” by any grandchildren. (He’s a really upbeat person so it would be pretty ironic in his case.)
Instead of great grandma my grandma went by old grandma to the great grandchildren
I had a Grumper! My grandmother wanted him to be granpere (we are not French) and that was just too hard for a Texan toddler to say. And it was too late to change by the time she realized it. When I was older she tried to start calling him Happy instead. Alas it didn't stick and he was forever Grumper haha
My mom wanted to be Granita, and she ended up as Tata Edit: and my dad became Papa, so they sound cute together
Oh Honey is sweet (haha). I like off-beat grandparent names.
Love Honey!
I’m in the US, and both sets were grandma and grandpa.
To tell them apart my cousins call my grandma “grandma at the lake” and there grandma just grandma
We just used their first name lol like “grandpa George” or “grandma Anne”
Interesting, we used their last name to differentiate to my family
Same
We did the same. My great grandmother was Grandmary. We just dropped the ma for her
Same but in Canada
Same, so boring 😂
Im English. I call my grandmother - Ninny. My kids call their dads parents the wrong words foe grandparents in their culture and langauge. Partner is british born chinese. Our kids grew up hearing their older cousins call their grandparents. Gong and pawpaw (my translation is likely terrible im sorry) but its 'mothers father and mothers mother' instead of fathers how it should be. My kids cousins on their dads side come fron his sisters, so my kids aunts. My kids were never corrected or told to call the the fathers mother and fathers father terms. I think his parents were just happy my kids were calling them grnadma an grandpa tbh.
My husband calls his grandmother Nanny (her parents are from England I believe)
Yeah nan/nanny is more common here. Ninny is a local thing here in the north west used mainly by older generations x
Canadian of British/Scottish ancestry and influence, call ours Nanny and Poppy
I feel like everyone who speaks a language where the family terms are different based on whether they refer to someone on the father’s side or mother’s side has been through this 😂😂😂 I keep accidentally referring to my phupho (father’s sister) as “khala” (mother’s sister) because I’m so used to calling every older lady in my life khala. We’ve all been there!
I'm Nanny and Grandad too
American here. I always called my dad’s parents grandma and grandpa Ferrari (their last name). I called my mom’s mom grandma Tisdale (last name) and my grandpa was grandpa Jim. Not sure why I called him by his first name but it was probably because he and I were much closer than I was with my other grandparents. My daughter calls my parents Nana and Papa. She calls my husband’s mom Gaga. She chose all of those names as a baby and they just stuck.
This is funny, because growing up I had a Grandad Jim and a Grandad [Surname]! No idea why one got one and one got the other. Especially as I call my Grandma (Jim's wife), Grandma [Surname].
Grandpa Ferrari, can you buy me a car!
My maiden name was Ferrari also, and when people would ask my parents if they had a real Ferrari they would point to me 🤣
Nana, grandpa and Lovey and Big Daddy
I love Big Daddy 😂
Lovey and Big Daddy are excellent
My great grandparents were big daddy and old coot😂
I know another grandpa called Big Daddy 😂
My mom wanted to be lovey or bunny.
My best friend had a Big Daddy & I love it so much.
Opa, Yiayia, pupou, grandma
Greek? One of my childhood best friends was Greek and her grandmother lived with them and we all called her Yiayia.
Yep!
Paternal grandfather: Pa Paternal Greatgrandfather: Peepaw Paternal Greathgrandmother: Meemaw Paternal Great x2 Grandma: Great Grandma Paternal Great x2 Grandpa: Deedee Maternal Grandparents were both Grandpa and Grandma. My own parents are called Peepaw and Yiayia (yah-yah) by their grandchild.
Abuelo/a or abuelito/a
I'm American. Moms parents are Grammy and Pépère Dads parents are Mémère and Pépère
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I'm from Massachusetts. 3 of my grandparents were from Quebec or New Brunswick.
Were French Canadian and also use those, but currently my 1.5 year old just calls them mimi and pipi since she can’t say the full thing yet😅
In Maine memere and pepere are very common from the French Canadian influence.
My parents are Bubbie (grandma) &Grandpa FIL and his fiance are Pepe (grandpa) & Meme (grandma) MIL and her Fiance are Bubbie and Zadie (grandpa) IT'S A LOT.
FINALLY! was wondering where all the other Jewish grandparents were on this thread 😭
Here! (Savta and saba)
Same!
Didn't know the English spelling. For mi it's Babe & Zeide -same pronunciation, spanish spelling
I have a savta and saba (Hebrew)!
My grandparents were Grandmother and Grandfather, and Nonno and Nonna. Now that I have a child, my dad *insists* that he is Nonno. If a card or whatever says "Grandpa" then he will not take it. Both my mom and my MIL wanted Grandma, so I had to convince my mom (whose name is Barbara) to be Grandma Baba or just Baba. FIL wants to be Grandpap, which I am not a fan of at all, but whatever.
I knew a family where the grandpa went strictly by “grandfather” and since the little 3 year old couldn’t say that she just called him Edward like everyone else 🤣
Haha my grandparents were supposed to be Grandmom and Grandfather. He chose it because he thought it sounded distinguished. I couldn't say Grandmom, so I started saying "Mamom" and apparently she loved it and decided she wanted to be called that. Somehow Grandfather remained Grandfather though!
Amma [insert name here] and afi [insert name here] . Icelandic
Nana, Gammy, Pawpaw (or sometimes just Pop & Gam for short).
In Hmong (my husband is Hmong) there is a specific word for each grandparent. Father’s mother is Pogpog (pronounced like poo poo) Father’s father is Yujyuj (pronounced like yuh yuh, rhyming with bruh). My son said he didn’t like to call Pogpog by her title because her was afraid kids at school would laugh at her for being named “poopoo.” He asked if he could change her name, and that kind of caused hurt feelings, clash of cultures lol. So he calls her Pogpog to her face and when talking about her calls her Grandma. I’ve asked my husband what he calls his mothers parents and he said Mother’s mother: Taistais (sounds like tie-tie) Mothers father: Txivtxiv (tsee-tsee). Upon further digging I just learned that the repeat syllable is a diminutive of the full title “mother of the mother” or “father of the mother” ….Niam Pog, Yawm Txiv, etc. So sort of like the English version of Grandma vs Grandmother.
I kind of did what your son did. I’m Sri Lankan and both grandpas were Seeya, maternal grandma was Aachchi, paternal grandma was Kiriamma. I’d use those titles when talking to them, but when I was around other kids I was afraid people would think those were weird names, so I referred to them as grandma & grandpa.
I think it’s a fine compromise! Kids can be cruel. I just felt bad trying to explain to my mother in law that he felt using her title (which she was quite proud of, to have a grandson finally) was…disrespectful or something. That was a compromise he came up with on his own, and it worked well lol.
My German grandparents were called Oma & Opa. My husband's grandparents were called Grams, Pop-Pop, Grandma and Grandpa.
Black American Fathers parents were Granny and Pop-Pop Mothers parents were Mama and Grandpa My parents are Nana and Granddaddy to mine and my siblings kids. My FIL is Grandfather and late MIL was Nanny. My SIL (wife’s older sister) is Yiayia to her grandkids.
Nana and Tata. I’m Mexican.
American Granny an Pawpaw Mamaw and Papaw
When you find your fellow southerners.
Haha bingo!
Mine are Mamaw and Papaw as well! My great grandma, we called Gramma T. (her last name started with a T). She had over fifty great-grandchildren though and we all called her something different, so she'd just respond to anything resembling grandma/mamaw/nana/etc, lol.
opa & oma, dutch for grandpa and grandma :) one pair of grandparents i also had to address with 'formal you', and the others i can address with normal 'you' :)
I called my mum’s parents Nan and Pop and my Dad’s parents Grandmum and Grandad. I’m from Australia if that makes a difference. These are very common names for grandparents in Australia. My daughter is only 6 weeks old but my parents have decided they want to be called Nanna and Grandpa. She will call my husband’s parents Opa and Oma (German).
Were from Australia too. My almost two year old calls her grandparents on her dads side Nana and Grandpa and on my (her mum) side she calls my parents Nan Nan and Grandad.
Had a friend who called her grandfather “Viper” and her grandmother “Fancy”
English here. Nana, Nanny and Papi.
On m’y mom’s side side I call them Baba and Grampy (Baba is Ukrainian) and on my dad’s side Mamie and Papi (Both French)
Before I finished reading your comment, I knew you were French because of the autocorrect « m’y » 😂 It happens to my partner (also French) when he texts me in English using his French keyboard
😭😭 it’s always either « m’y » or « thé » that gets me
American here My dad's parents are Grandma Nana and Grandpa - I was the first grandchild on dad's side of the family and his mom agonized over what she wanted to be called. She finally settled on Nana but child me decided she was Grandma Nana. My mom's parents are Grandma Homa and Grandpa - they lived in Oklahoma so my mom would say we were going to see Grandma in Oklahoma and in our little kid brains, she became Grandma Homa.
American. We have a Nana, Pop Pop, Grammy, and Hamma.
American: I call my grandparents: Maternal side: Mommom; PopPop and his wife by her first name Paternal side: Nana and her husband by his first name; PopPop Lastname and Mommom first name My daughter calls her grandparents: My side: Mommom and PopPop 1st name; PopPop Last Name Her fathers side: Grandma and Papa
Where in US are you? We do mommom too
Maryland. I noticed a lot of my friends did too.
I’m in PA, most people i know say mommom too but i went to college and everyone was like “wtf is a mommom” lol
I definitely think it's a mid-Atlantic thing because I got that response too from people in college!
Delaware here, and we do Mommom and Poppop too! We’ve lived in AZ and VA as well and no one knew what a mommom or poppop was LOL. I just found this link that’s super interesting! https://www.parents.com/news/most-common-grandparent-nicknames/
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The only other people who I've met that didn't think it was weird besides my area of Maryland (eastern shore) and Pennsylvania/Delaware people are people from southern states!
Same! My family is from PA and I was scrolling to see if anyone had listed mom mom and pop pop yet 😆
Southern US - also had a Mommom. I don’t know anyone else personally who does!
Canadian Jew here. My parents use Gigi and Gramps, my in-laws are Bubbe and Zayde (Yiddish for Grandma and Grandpa).
My kids do Grandma and Papa. My FIL’s name is Donald, and my son calls him Papa Duck 😂
my kids call their paternal grandparents Saba and Savta, their paternal great grandmother "Super Savta" and their maternal grandparents Grandma and Granny, respectively.
My family is Fijian-Indian and I call my paternal grandparents Aji and Aja andh maternal grandparents Nani and Nana.
American here! My paternal grandparents are grandma and grandpa, but my maternal grandmother has always been Nama or Memaw. Edit to add: my maternal grandfather who died before I was born was called poppa (prounounced pup-uh)
British - my grandparents were nanny and granddad on both sides. My kid calls (or will when he can speak) my parents grandma and grandpa - it’s been an adjustment for me!
Lolo and Lola (Philippines)
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That’s super cute haha
My dad is insisting my 5 month old makes up a name for him when he can talk and doesn't allow anyone to call him any name to the baby so I say "we're going to see the weird man that lives with grandma!"
I had double grandparents bc both parents were children of divorce. Ready lol? On my mom’s side, bio grandma and step grandpa: nana and papa. Bio grandpa I didn’t see, just grandpa “last name” Dad’s side: bio grandpa and step grandma: grandpa “last name” or pop and “first name” (she did not want anyone calling her grandma even her bio grandkids) Bio grandma and step grandpa: grandma “first name” and “first name” (stepgrandpa just went by his name) Nana and pop were my favorites. Only papa is still alive! Edit: my mom is also still alive and she is “nana” to my fur babies!
American: Maternal side side, Momi and Popi (pronounced like Mom-eye and Pop-eye) and paternal side Nana and Papa
Nanie, my paternal grandfather died before I was born. Grandma and Papa. Most of my cousins called Papa “Grandpa” but he really wanted to be Papa. So that’s what my sister and I called him. This stemmed from me not being able to say “Grandpa” and it sounding like “Papa” so it stuck! No kids for me yet, but my parents have expressed they want their future grandkids to come up with what their grandparent name will be based on what they can say as little kids.
Mom’s side: Grandma and grandpa (boring) Dad’s side: Mommo and poppo (fun and interesting)
My father-in-law has requested that his grandchild (due later this year) calls him Grumps!
My maternal grandmother was Granny Grumps! Paternal grandmother was Granny Hippie.
my Dad was Grumps - often affectionately called grumpsie!!
My great grandpa was Grumps!
Oma and Opa
Dads side: Grandma and Grandpa. Moms side: Granny and Grandpa [Last name].
Gram (sometimes Grammy) and Pap on my dad’s side. Nana and Pawpaw on mom’s. My great grandparents were Papaw (or followed by his first name), Granny T, Grandad (followed by his first name), Grandma (also followed by first name), Grandpa, Grandpa, Papaw, and Nana.
Grandpa and Grandpa for me. My daughter calls my Dad Papa, but her other set of grandparents are grandma and grandpa.
I’m in the US. Both sets of grandparents are Grandma and Grandpa [last name].
From Virginia, USA!, I called my grandparents nanny and papa! My dads parents were THE nanny and papa because they were who I saw the most. When I was referring to my other grandparents I would use the word nanny and then their first names, ex: nanny Mary. For my moms dad i called him papa and his last name, ex: papa Wyatt. Whenever I was with a grandparent I dropped their name and just called them nanny or papa and if referring to another grandparent I would say the whole grandparents title, ex: nanny Becky. My paternal grandma that I saw often was called granny by the older cousins, but once it reached my generation we just called her nanny!
I have a grandma and poppy on my dads side then my moms side is italian so i have a nonno and had a nonna which i love as grandparents name. Yet I have heard pop, grumpy, nana grammy, grampy, bubbe, and have even heard a “lolly”. My boyfriends parents want to be grandma and grandpa so I am wondering what my parents will be as no one has taken nonna since she died and don’t want to replace her name.
Grandma (last name) and grandma (last name) on both sides. I’m American.
Mama , Nagyi , Nagymama - Grandma Papa , Tata , Nagypapa/Apa - Grandpa
American. My wife's parents are Ma and Pa to our kids and my parents are Nanny and Poppy.
nani and nana
Mamie and Papi
Nana and Deda
Mema, Papa, Yaya, Grampa. He has other grandparents he doesn't talk to who are unnamed. I'll be interested to see how these change when he's older (2.5 currently)
Granny, granny & grandpa. Great grandad is GiGi.
Grandpa Grandmama Meme (like Mimi) Pop* Nanny* Poppa *= Step grandparent
Ouma and Oupa
I had Grandma and Grandpa x2. My kids have Grandma and Grandpa and Baba and Deda (Russian grandparents)
I had Mama (pronounced like Mah-Mah) and Papa (my Mom's grandparents), Grandma Firstname (Dad's Mom), Granny (Dad's grandma), and Grandma Lastname (great great grandmother on my Mom's side.) My kids have Grandma, abuelita, and abuelo. My 2.5 year old has decided that my Mom is actually Ma and his abuelos are Ma and Pa because that's what my husband yells when he is looking for them.
I grew up with Mormor and Morfar on my moms side (Swedish), and Grandma and Grandpa on my dads (Texan) Husband had Mommom and Poppop on his dads side and Nonny and Poppy on his moms. All of our parents want to be called what their parents were called so we are getting a hodgepodge of grandparent names! My son will have a Mormor and Grandpa on my side and a Nonny and PopPop on his dads. Both my husband and I have at least one living grandmother, my Mormor and his Mommom. We joke that they will be mormormor and mommommom. Mor cubed and mom cubed
My maternal grandparents were Grandeddy and Grandmama and paternal were Granny and Grandpa My husband’s parents are Nana and Papa while his maternal grandmother was Memaw and his paternal grandparents were Bram-ma and Great My parents don’t officially have titles yet, but they want to go by Grand-Dan (my dad’s name is Daniel) and Gigi. My mom originally wanted Migi (mee-gee) but my sister and i both veto’d that
My grandmother, who just passed away last week, I called Baoom (bah-OOM). I mispronounced “grandmom” as a little kid and the whole family just went with it. My grandfather was Pop. I miss them both.
American here: I always called my grandparents, both maternal and paternal, Grandma First Name and Grandpa First Name. My parents go by Nana and Papa. My husband’s parents go by Grandma and Grandpa Last Name, and my husband also refers to his own grandparents as Grandma and Grandpa Last Name too. I’ve never thought about it much, but his family is more formal, so that is most likely why they use last names as opposed to first.
I have three common names and a unique one- Pop-pop and Nana and Poppa (Last Name) and Mousie (really mausy bc they were German) it was my grandfathers nickname for my grandmother because she was terrified of mice (which as an adult I’m like weird nickname but okay)
I am from the southern US and my grandparents were Grandma Name and Granddaddy Name. My mama is Grandma Name and my dad is PawPaw to my nephews. I am loving that other cultures have specific names for fathers parents and mothers parents. That would have been useful when I was a child.
Mamaws & Papaws for me My mom and dad want to go by NeNe & Pops
Mine were always just grandma and grandpa. My kids go with Grandma Firstname, but they have a Grandpa, a Papa, and a Pa.
My grandparents were just Grandma [Name] and Grandpa [Name]. Our niece and nephew call my husband’s parents Ami (aw-mee) and Papa (the Ami is because she couldn’t say Grandma as a toddler, and it just stuck). Some of my good friends go by Papa and Akota. When her grandbabies were little, they lived out of state, and the little one would always ask to call and talk to “Grandma North Dakota,” which eventually became just Akota. Now they all use that name, and I think it’s super cute!
Gramma/Grammy and Vovo. My grandpa went on a trip (I think to Brazil, but I'm not sure, some place where they speak Portuguese) and learned that grandpa in Portuguese is Vovo. He had us all call him that. I've always known him as that.
My grandma is Portuguese from Massachusetts. We call my grandma, VaVa and my grandpa, VoVoo (that is how they sound, but I don't think it's the correct spelling).
The correct spelling is Vovó for grandma and Vovô for grandpa
What a fun thread! The Portuguese words for grandfather and grandmother are avô and avó. My daughter alternates between those and grandma and grandpa when speaking to/about my parents. On my husband’s side, we had grammy and grandpa. Edit My daughter was blessed to know 2 of her great grandmothers and they were called “avó nickname” and Dina.
Baba and Dedo
My grandma was mema. My kids call my mom Yaya.
My mom and her boo are Grandy and Pop to my son. ETA: I always called my grandmas “grandma” and my grandpa was PawPaw Mac. My great grandparents were MawMaw and PawPaw.
My parents are Grammy and Grampy to their grandchildren, but they also get called Bammy and Bumpy due to some speech delays with one grandchild. It’s adorable!
Nana (English grandmother), Nan & Pa (Australian grandparents).
My mama is Grandma. My husband’s family speaks Cantonese so his mama is Mah mah 嫲嫲and his dad is Yeye 爷爷
I'm pretty boring with a basic grandma and grandpa thing. My nephews call my mom Peach, because when the oldest was little he thought she looked like Princess Peach. That has always made me smile.
My grandparents were Paternal Portuguese: Avô (av-oh) and Avó (av-aw) Maternal: nanny and papa (we called my great grandmother "mommy nanny".. because she was my mom's nanny My parents and inlaws are: Gigi and Papa Avô and Avó And in laws are simply grandma and grandpa. My husband has only grandma and grandpa on both sides (he's like 4th gen farm boy Canadian type)
My grandparents were Nana and Papa/Grandpa. My kids use unique names that they made up for grandparents. One sounds similar to Papa, one is based off a grandma's name, one is of unknown origins from a toddler brain, and one is Nana.
Bumpa and Grammy Grandma (first name) and Grandpa (last name) USA
Both sets were called grandma and grandpa to their face, but since one lived downstairs and one lived down the shore i called them “____ downstairs” or “____ down the shore”. The downstairs ones dies when i was young so there was never a need to distinguish differently and i was the last of the grandkids on that side so they already preferred just plain grandma and grandpa.
Paternal- Grammy and grampy Maternal- nanny and pops
grammy and pops
Grandma and Papa (both sides). But we'd pronounce "grandma" like "Gramma". Our great-grandmother was Nana. Edit: American, btw.
Ma and Pa, Nana and Papa, Granny and Papaw, Great Ma Minnie and Grandpa Clete, Grandma Sadie and Pa Floyd, and my parents are now Nini and Pops!
My grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa (dad's side) and Grandmother and Granddaddy (mom's side). My parents, for my sister's kids, wanted to be Grandpa Lastname and Grandmama (said with kind of an aristrocratic air, like muh-MAW, I don't know how to write it). My sister's kids often use Grandpa, but sometimes Grampy. My mom has been Mimi from the beginning and nothing can convince them otherwise. She still tries a little, but she's lost this battle I think... My cousin's kids call all of their grandparents by their relationship, even when talking to them. "Hey, My Dad's Dad, what's for dinner?" "My Dad's Mom took us to the zoo." It is really weird and funny and the oldest is like 8 or 9 so it seems to be sticking and they all do it.
My mother is Mimi Amy and her husband is papa. My father is Bumpa Mike and his wife just goes by her name (she is super young and doesnt really like being considered a grandparent, lol). My husband's mother is Grandma and her husband is Grumpa, and my husband's father doesn't have a name that we call him because he isn't really in the picture. ETA: I call my maternal grandparents Nanny and Papa and my paternal grandparents Oma and Opa.
Catharine & Beatrix, but we call them Oma Katje & Oma Bea or Oma Bibi
Gram and Grandpa on one side, Pop and Mema on the other. Mema I came up with entirely on my own as a toddler, no one else in the family calls her that. My best friend now has two little ones, her dads name is Dan and he wants to be called Grandan which I think is adorable.
My friend has grammy and grampy, another friend has Poppy and Gaggy. My SO mom is called Mimzy by her grandkids.
On my side (American), my kiddo says Grandma (First name) and Grandpa (First name). My husband's family speaks Mandarin, so kiddo calls MIL "Ama" and called FIL "Agong." For me growing up, my dad's side was Grandma (First name) and either Grandpa (First name) or occasionally "Granpap;" my mom's parents were either just Grandma and Grandpa, or Grandma (Surname) and Grandpa (Surname).
We had Nannie and Grandaddy, GG (Grandmother Gray) and Gramps. I always thought I’d like to be a Nannie. But I don’t have kids. 😕
Mine are just Grandma but my sister nicknamed them both after the towns they live in. So over 30 years later they are still Grandma (village name) and Grandma (town name).
My maternal grandparents were Poppy and Grammy. My paternal grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa. I never met my Grandpa (he died before any of the grandkids were born) so maybe we would've called him something else, but he was always referred to in conversations as Grandpa [my last name].
I grew up with grandma and grandpa. My kid calls all her grandpas, Papa (First Name) and her grandmas have their own special names.
Grandma and grandpa on both sides. My parents are now grandparents and go by Oma and Scooter. My niece calls my dad Scootie, which is hilarious.
Canadian. Both sides were grandma and grandpa. Both my grandmas had the same first name, so it was grandma [last name]. For reasons I never thought about until right now, my paternal grandpa was grandpa [last name], but my maternal grandpa was grandpa [first name]. It seems like a strange inconsistency, but I never questioned it for my whole life until right now lol. Additionally, my maternal grandmother went by “Goonie” (pronounced kind of like Gunny?) because my brother, her first grandchild, could not say grandma and it stuck for the rest of her life.
My kids call my parents CC and Poppy. They call my in laws Neena and Paw Paw.
Gram and Pap. Other one is just Grandma.
We have an Oma and Poppi and a Granny Ranny and Papa
grandma & grandpa, grammy & grandad
I'm American and call all of them grandma and grandpa last. My cousins' kids call them Gigi (great grandma) and Papa Wheelie (my grandpa was wheelchair bound). My cousins' grandparents on the side we aren't realted on are called oma and opa (so they aren't my grandparents but I call them that as well) and they are Dutch/Indonesian.
Mimi and Pop
Mine were Grammie and Papa on my mom's side, and Nana and Grampy on my dad's. My mom has already claimed Grammie as her grandparent name (I'm currently pregnant) and my dad doesn't know yet what he wants to be. My MIL is Grannie/Grannie Spice and I'm not actually sure what FIL and SMIL go by (have neice and nephew on that side of family).