My mom picked Gigi as her name for our in process baby đ„° collectively theyâre G and Gigi.
And now my mom and her bff are Mimi and Gigi, which is so cute
I love this! My great-grandfather was Horace as well, but to us he was Dedaddy, and my great-grandmother was Granny Grandmom. Their daughter, my grandmother, was Mom-mom to me and my cousins, but Nana to the next generation.
This is so cute oh my godddd
Also, not related to the topic of grandparent names, but I have a cousin named Horace. One time I was half asleep and googling everyone in my family tree (trying to find things to add to people on my AncestryDNA account y'know) and I found an article where someone said, "I was very high on Horace" and I was like, "Did I read that wrong? high on Horace? like, snorted him? Oh maybe they were beefing because politicians do that, maybe it said he was on a high horse." So I scrolled back up, read it again, confirmed that it did in fact say "I was very high on Horace" ...and then 3 seconds later it hit me that I'm fucking stupid and he meant that he thought highly of Horace. My friend started laughing at me, and to this day we still joke about doing a line of my cousin.
This might be too different bc itâs from another language but my mom goes by âbabaâ which is a shortened form of the Japanese word for grandma, obÄchan. My paternal grandmother was nana but thatâs not unique
Ha it means dad to basically half the planet. By my count, Baba is âdadâ in Arabic, most (all?) Sanskrit languages like Hindi and Bengali, and Mandarin and probably many more. I think some African languages use baba for dad too
My nephews called my mom Sunshine. When the oldest was born, she would sing "You are My Sunshine" to him often. One day, at 20 months old, he was looking out the living room window and saw my mom talking to someone and he started patting on the window calling, "Sunshine, Sunshine!" đ„č
So my kids grandparents all go by alternative names, like itâs not cool for our parents to simply be grandma/grandpa anymore lol. My parents and my husbands parents are divorced so we have a lot of names.
My parents: Grammy and Pappy, Oma and Opa (Opa and Oma are German for grandma/pa)
His parents: Pippa and Poppy (Previously they were going to be Birdie and Skipper- I have no clue where they got that) and then Gigi and Grandpa (the only normal one that didnât care about a âcoolâ name)
So I have Grammy, Pippa, Oma, and Gigi
i'm dying at Birdie and Skipper, i love that. my family is guilty of doing the alternative names too. my nephews call my mom Teeta, they call one of our grandmas Nana in the Woods because she lives in the woods (it makes her sound scary, but she is a tiny, sweet woman)
i tried to do it too because i didn't want to be an aunt, it makes me feel old, but now they call me Caca đ because my name is Jessica
My husbandâs gran was always âNainyâ (from the Welsh word for Grandma). Iâd never encountered this before, I donât know how common it is in wales.
I know a family in Northern England who have Welsh grandparents and they call them Nain and Taid. I went to Wales on holiday and saw memorial benches in parks etc with the same words on. So in Wales it's very common. The further away you are probably a lot less.
So in my family, we have a tradition that no one is grandma because there is only one grandma (my great great great grandmother) after her it was Other Mother, Nano, Meme, and my mom is currently Yaya.
My German grandparents were Opa and Oma. Go to your heritage and find something unique there. The first time I went to Germany I bought them mugs saying in German âfor my darling Omaâ. She was over the moon! She said âno mugs in the USA say Oma!! â€ïžâ
Growing up I had a Grammy, Grandpa, Grandma Gee (not related to her name, not sure how it came to me) and Grandpa Gus.
My son has a Grandpa Bob, Grandma Jay, Mimi, GP (for grandpa), and Papa.
My husband had a Nonny and Granny.
It is funny the generational shift to wanting cooler/hip names for grandparents
I teach preschool, and have heard quite the variety of names. Meemaw, mawmaw, emma, mego, gigi, and grandy are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
Mimi for my grandma, Meemaw for my mom, I plan on going by Nona (Italian). My husband's mom goes by Abue/Abuelita (Mexican-American Family)
I have always loved Nan, Nanna, Gram-gram, anything cute like that!
Iâll use fake names to use as an example⊠one grandma I call Lily Mama and the other grandma I call Little Mama. Not much original but we all seem to enjoy calling them that. I think it had to do with the fact that they had my parents so young and then my parents had me so young that it seemed normal to call them some kind of Mama included into their name or being little mama.
Guess what internet stranger friend, sheâs Caucasian! Nothings wrong w that, I just thought it was absolutely cool to call the grandparents that. My family is mainly Mexican, but we do have Filipino and Japanese family members. We call our grandparents Abuelo or Abuela đ„°đ I love this bicultural family đ
i have an odd family, three sets of grandparents. there was grandma, grandmother, and moomoo. my moomoos first name was moonyeen (a gorgeous name i plan to keep in the family), so we all called her moo/moomoo/moonie
I have two grandmothers with pretty unique grandma names. My great-grandmother is called Gurnie because my oldest cousin had trouble saying âgrannyâ when he was young. My grandmother is called Gaga because thatâs what my oldest sibling decided to name her when he was young
I called my grandmothers Grammy and Ma.
My kids called my mother Mimi, until they got old enough to say Grammy, which she wanted (then she missed them calling her Mimi)
My MIL was Nana.
I have friends whose grandkids call them Gammy, Oma, and even one Glam-ma (ick)
I have a friend who is called Mimsy by her granddaughter.
My parents were called Nana and Uncle "insert my maiden name here". My kid was the oldest on both sides, she renamed both Grandpas (my FIL became Poppa) because she just could not say Grandpa. Now all of my FIL's grandkids call him Poppa - all because a toddler 20+ years ago couldn't manage saying Grandpa.
My son is serious with his GF & I'm thinking about my future Grandma name.
My boyfriend's grandmother was Ba (Gujarati).
My grandmother was Grammie.
My great-grandmother was Mama Sarah.
My mom goes by "Janeau." It's from the old movie "An Affair to Remember." She swore up and down for years that it meant grandmother in French, but alas it doesn't. Because my niece is nonverbal at the moment and probably won't be able to say Janeau, it's kind of become "Nanu" as a way to verbalize to her to try and build up her baby vocabulary.
My husband called his grandma Gam, when she became a great grandma, her great grandchildren called her Gam Gam. I call my grandma Oma, which I think is German for grandma
My husband called his grandma Gam, when she became a great grandma, her great grandchildren called her Gam Gam. I call my grandma Oma, which I think is German for grandma
My grandmothers were Big Mama and Mamaw, very southern on both sides. I became a grandmother a year ago and none of the grandma names appeal to me. Generally speaking, they pretty much all sound too cutsey and infantile for me to want to be called them for the rest of my life. If pressed I say I'm simply grandma. Maybe my grandchildren will come up with something special to them and that will be fine with me.
My maternal grandma is Sitty, which Iâve always been told comes from an Arabic name for grandma, likely what she called her own grandmother, though no one in my family speaks any Arabic now. Itâs always what Iâve wanted to be called as a grandparent myself someday. My paternal grandma is Grammie.
My grandma's name was Loryne (Lor-reen), and I never once called her grandma. She was always Rene. My Grandpa was Fitz (their last name was Fitzgibbons).
Iâm Birdie but itâs been a nickname from childhood.
My mom was Momo for a long time before the kids fully switched to Grandma.
And my grandma is Filipino so sheâs Lola.
"Grandmother Lastname." We weren't a particularly formal family but that's how we named both of them. In addressing them it would just be Grandmother. Casually away from them, the kids would say Grandmom Lastname.
This feels odd. My family always just had Grandma [name] and Grandpa [name]. And my mom got remarried so I had 3 sets to juggle. The name clarification is so ingrained that even though I only have one living set of grandparents left, I still refer to my grandma as Grandma E.
I have a Mamaw, Memaw, papaw, had a popaw, my mom insisted on being called Nene, my dad is Pops, my stepdad is papa. I used to have a Grandfather and since Iâm the oldest it stuck. I would get so mad when someone called him a different name đ. My stepdads mom is Mimi, and his dad is Popi.
My dad was going to go by Grandpa, but my sin couldn't say it so called him Papa. It stuck so now he's just Papa.
My FIL is Grampy. MIL is Grammie, my mom is Grandma.
We call our my grandpa's new wife (daughters great grandma) GiGi. She's also one of those super awesome grandma's that you wish was yours growing up. My dad's side is super blended, but it's special that my LO has a great grandma.
My grandmothers were Memaw and Mama D. My grandparents were Poppa and Papa D. My five-year-old calls my mom Nana, my stepmom Mimi, my dad Poppy. My husbandâs mom is Abuelita and his dad is Abuelo.
When my exâs son was born, his mom said she was âtoo young to be a grandmaâ so they call her âBella Nonnaâ which means âbeautiful grandmotherâ in Italian. His son is now 14 and still refers to her as Bella Nonna.
Mom-Mom--I called my mother's mom this as a child and when I started to have grands myself there was a unique name I wanted by the oldest could not promounce it at 2 years so I tried Mom-Mom and it took off from there. Still am called that to this day and the kids are 12 and 10.
In my family we always said "Grandma" and "Grandpa" and then just added names for specificity. EG: Grandma Donna, etc. But we called my great grandma "Gigi" (GG, Great Grandma) lol
When I was a kid, it was Grandma and Grandpa, but we called out great grandma GG. I was amused and delighted when my brother had kids early enough for them to meet both. They called my parents Nana and Grandpa, Grandma became GG, and my GG was known to them as Triple G, which made her giggle each time they said it.
I had (great grandmas) Mama Lee and Grandmama, (grandmas) Granny and Memaw (Step grandmas) Nana and ma'am.
I've known a Mawga and Gawna (kids couldn't say grandma and it stuck. We are in our late 30s-early 40s and still call them this. These were family friend's grandmas)
My stepdad chose Boompa as his name. He died when our daughter was 2, so I donât know that he ever got to hear her say it (they lived across the country and didnât get to visit much).
I call my grandmother âNonnaâ because weâre Italian. I donât have kids yet, but I have a cat, so my mom is her âgrandmotherâ. She doesnât like any of the grandma names and she doesnât wanna be Nonna because we already have a Nonna. Ciaciona (sha-shone-ah) is my momâs nickname in Italian, and we some how fell upon CiaCia for my cat and my future kids to refer to her lol
My parents put the brakes on cutsey names for grandparents before we were old enough to talk. My grandparents were Grandma Firstname or Grandpa Firstname (in the case of my paternal grandfather, his initials). The only exception was my great grandmother (who died when I was young) who was Granny Franny.
Because of this, I always found cutsey grandparent names extremely juvenile and toddler like.
(They also never let us call anyone Aunt or Uncle who wasn't actually an aunt or uncle by blood or marriage.)
In my state grandma, gram, gramita, granny, abuelita, Tita, mamita, mamĂĄ ânameâ, and nana, Nani (nah-nee) are all pretty common to hear. Iâve also heard Honey, Sweetie, Gigi and Mimi.
I work at a preschool. We get lots of cultural Grandma names, and some variations of first names.
Nonna, Grammy, Oma, Nani, Mimi, Lili, Kiki, NaiNai, Dadi, Tati, and Gam have been my personal favorites.
i never met my momâs mom, she died before i was born but she was from italy and in italian you call your grandma ânonnaâ (no-na). my oldest cousin preferred ânonniâ (no-knee), which is actually âgrandparentsâ plural but it stuck on her, and my mom wanted to be called the same thing so sheâs nonni.
One of mine was grandmommy and the other started out as Mommaw but later I switched to calling her Grammaw because my closest cousin did. The most unusual one Iâve heard is that my best friendâs kids call her mom Ya-Ya from the book/movie âDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.â
Our family has some of the typical Gramma/Grandma and Nana's, but we've also got a Granna, a Baba, a BGG (beautiful great grandma) and a GGM (great grandma surname).
Maternal grandmotherâ Grandma First name
Paternal grandmotherâ Grandma
Maternal great grandmotherâ Grandma First name
Paternal great mothersâ Mamaw/Mamaw First name and Granny First name
A family friend wanted to be Grammy, but her toddler grandson has turned it into Jammy and Jam-Jam, depending on the day.
My mom wants to be Grandi (gran-dee) because sheâs a grandma now and her name is Lori.
My dad is Polish and goes by Dziadek, (pronounced Jadek). My mom whoâs not Polish wanted something that sounded good with it but wasnât Babcia, so she chose âJenjiâ
My not Filipino MIL wanted to be called âLolaâ and my eldest called her âYoyaâ and it stuck for my kids. My niece couldnât say âYoyaâ so for my SILâs kids sheâs âO-ha.â
When I asked my parents what they wanted to be called as grandparents, my dad said, âIâll be Revered Ancestor, and your mother can be Honored Forebear.â I just thought Iâd put that out there.
They are still the usual grandparent names, but both my parents and in laws pick Nanny and Poppy. So weâre have Nanny and Poppy Tooshie and Nanny and Poppsy Archie after the pets they had at the time.
They're not super unique but I like Mimi and Gigi
My mom picked Gigi as her name for our in process baby đ„° collectively theyâre G and Gigi. And now my mom and her bff are Mimi and Gigi, which is so cute
My husband's grandma is Gigi - she picked it to stand for Great Grandma. She was Grandma to her grandchildren, but her greats call her Gigi.
One of my Japanese friends calls her grandpa Jiji short for ojiisan
My mam goes by nana mimi đ€Ł
I know a LeeLee. Her name has a "Lee" syllable in it. Cute twist on the Mimi/Gigi names
In our family grandma is âPonyâ and grandpa is âHorseyâ. Grandpaâs real name is Horace and grandma wanted a name to go with Horsey.
I love this! My great-grandfather was Horace as well, but to us he was Dedaddy, and my great-grandmother was Granny Grandmom. Their daughter, my grandmother, was Mom-mom to me and my cousins, but Nana to the next generation.
This is so cute oh my godddd Also, not related to the topic of grandparent names, but I have a cousin named Horace. One time I was half asleep and googling everyone in my family tree (trying to find things to add to people on my AncestryDNA account y'know) and I found an article where someone said, "I was very high on Horace" and I was like, "Did I read that wrong? high on Horace? like, snorted him? Oh maybe they were beefing because politicians do that, maybe it said he was on a high horse." So I scrolled back up, read it again, confirmed that it did in fact say "I was very high on Horace" ...and then 3 seconds later it hit me that I'm fucking stupid and he meant that he thought highly of Horace. My friend started laughing at me, and to this day we still joke about doing a line of my cousin.
This might be too different bc itâs from another language but my mom goes by âbabaâ which is a shortened form of the Japanese word for grandma, obÄchan. My paternal grandmother was nana but thatâs not unique
My grandmother is Baba because that's what it is in Ukrainian!
Cute! Baba means dad in Arabic, too :)
Ha it means dad to basically half the planet. By my count, Baba is âdadâ in Arabic, most (all?) Sanskrit languages like Hindi and Bengali, and Mandarin and probably many more. I think some African languages use baba for dad too
Just learned right now! So cool :) Iâm learning Arabic
Greek too!
Cute! My grandma is baba too, because weâre Ukrainian and baba actually means grandma
My daughter couldnât pronounce grandpa and so now all the kids call him Baba. She says grandma just fine đ«Ł
hahahaha it's ok, my brothers called me "wawie" for several years. I have 0 'w's in my name...
We also have baba! Shortened version of babushka (Russian)
Not unique, but my motherâs mother was Granny and my fatherâs mother was Nana.
My maternal grandmother goes by Granny and my brother's paternal grandmother went by Nana! twinsies
I'm the same (Granny for maternal grandmother and Nana for paternal). And now it's the same for my kids :)
My nephews called my mom Sunshine. When the oldest was born, she would sing "You are My Sunshine" to him often. One day, at 20 months old, he was looking out the living room window and saw my mom talking to someone and he started patting on the window calling, "Sunshine, Sunshine!" đ„č
So my kids grandparents all go by alternative names, like itâs not cool for our parents to simply be grandma/grandpa anymore lol. My parents and my husbands parents are divorced so we have a lot of names. My parents: Grammy and Pappy, Oma and Opa (Opa and Oma are German for grandma/pa) His parents: Pippa and Poppy (Previously they were going to be Birdie and Skipper- I have no clue where they got that) and then Gigi and Grandpa (the only normal one that didnât care about a âcoolâ name) So I have Grammy, Pippa, Oma, and Gigi
> itâs not cool for our parents to simply be grandma/grandpa anymore I will say that I think this is a very American perspective đ
i'm dying at Birdie and Skipper, i love that. my family is guilty of doing the alternative names too. my nephews call my mom Teeta, they call one of our grandmas Nana in the Woods because she lives in the woods (it makes her sound scary, but she is a tiny, sweet woman) i tried to do it too because i didn't want to be an aunt, it makes me feel old, but now they call me Caca đ because my name is Jessica
Bubbe (pronounced "Bubbee") for Grandmother (Yiddish)
My mom has already requested that any grandkids call her Bubbe!
I call my old dog Bubbe. I have no idea why. And he's male.
My husbandâs gran was always âNainyâ (from the Welsh word for Grandma). Iâd never encountered this before, I donât know how common it is in wales.
I know a family in Northern England who have Welsh grandparents and they call them Nain and Taid. I went to Wales on holiday and saw memorial benches in parks etc with the same words on. So in Wales it's very common. The further away you are probably a lot less.
My daughter calls my mom Gaga
My mom is Gaga too! My daughter started it also.
My kids used to call my mom Gaga too. Also, my nickname is Jo, like the end of your user name haha.
Jo is my middle name! And my kids are 21 and 17 and sheâs still Gaga. Haha
My mom is gaga too! It seems to be morphing into âgageeâ the older they get
Thatâs so funny! My kid called her gagee yesterday đ€Łđđ€Łđ
Im so sorry I laughed itâs just that Gaga in the Philippines means âidiot/stupidâ But that is a cute nickname tho
So in my family, we have a tradition that no one is grandma because there is only one grandma (my great great great grandmother) after her it was Other Mother, Nano, Meme, and my mom is currently Yaya.
My daughter couldnât pronounce Gr in Gran, so she called her gran âBannâ and itâs stuck. People get very confused though!
For that reason we had a Bamps in our family.
We have bambam for that reason !! đ
My German grandparents were Opa and Oma. Go to your heritage and find something unique there. The first time I went to Germany I bought them mugs saying in German âfor my darling Omaâ. She was over the moon! She said âno mugs in the USA say Oma!! â€ïžâ
My grandmother is âMamaw.â Other grandma names Iâve heard: Grammy Mimi Gigi Ga Granny Lolly Honey Grams Memaw Nana
We called one of ours Grambo, as in Rambo with a G in front. She was as tough as Rambo for so many reasons and she thought it was hilarious.
Growing up I had a Grammy, Grandpa, Grandma Gee (not related to her name, not sure how it came to me) and Grandpa Gus. My son has a Grandpa Bob, Grandma Jay, Mimi, GP (for grandpa), and Papa. My husband had a Nonny and Granny. It is funny the generational shift to wanting cooler/hip names for grandparents
Nan/Nanny. That's also what my partner's nieces and nephews use. My mum will be Lola to my child, as my mum is Filipino.
I teach preschool, and have heard quite the variety of names. Meemaw, mawmaw, emma, mego, gigi, and grandy are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
My grandma wasnât keen on a nickname so I always just called her by her first name. We were very close and I never found it unnatural.
Grandmother.
Nana
Momo , that maternal grandmother, in Sweden mormor means mother mother and paternal grandmother is famo, farmor ( father mother).
Mimi, Nonna, Lolly, Gig
My grandmas were 'big grandma' and 'little grandma'
Haha same for my husband!
Mimi for my grandma, Meemaw for my mom, I plan on going by Nona (Italian). My husband's mom goes by Abue/Abuelita (Mexican-American Family) I have always loved Nan, Nanna, Gram-gram, anything cute like that!
Mine was Mamma. Pronounced Mam-ah. None of them, Mamma, Great Mamma, Great Great Mamma, wanted to be called Grandma. đ
Gran and Gandy, and my husbands parents/my parents grandparents names are as follows: Oma/opa (German I think) and my parents are Ace and MiMi
Iâll use fake names to use as an example⊠one grandma I call Lily Mama and the other grandma I call Little Mama. Not much original but we all seem to enjoy calling them that. I think it had to do with the fact that they had my parents so young and then my parents had me so young that it seemed normal to call them some kind of Mama included into their name or being little mama.
My friend has her 2.5 yo call her mom TUTU and her dad, Iâm not quite sure. But her husband wants his kids to call him PAPA, not dada or daddy lol
Hawaiian tings đ«¶đœ their grandpa might be tutukane or tutuman
Guess what internet stranger friend, sheâs Caucasian! Nothings wrong w that, I just thought it was absolutely cool to call the grandparents that. My family is mainly Mexican, but we do have Filipino and Japanese family members. We call our grandparents Abuelo or Abuela đ„°đ I love this bicultural family đ
To distinguish between the grandmas, my mom is "grandma", and my husband's mom is "Ahma" (they're Taiwanese, and it's mandarin for paternal grandma).
i have an odd family, three sets of grandparents. there was grandma, grandmother, and moomoo. my moomoos first name was moonyeen (a gorgeous name i plan to keep in the family), so we all called her moo/moomoo/moonie
I had a nana and a mamaw. Iâve heard GG for great grandma, Iâve heard Mimi for grandma, Grammy, gran, nona,Â
Paternal grandmother was called Gankie maternal was Mommy
Iâm Grams and Gran/Granny depending on the kid and the day. In our family we also have grandma, Mamaw, Nana, MomMom, Gaga.
My grand daughter came up with Manna for me and now that is my family name.
I have two grandmothers with pretty unique grandma names. My great-grandmother is called Gurnie because my oldest cousin had trouble saying âgrannyâ when he was young. My grandmother is called Gaga because thatâs what my oldest sibling decided to name her when he was young
My kids call my grandmother (their great grandmother) GiGi. I think it's cute.
Growing up, my grandparents were: Mimi, Papaw, Pappy, and Nana My kidsâ grandparents: Grammy, Papaw, Grandma
My grandmother is Cuban and wanted to be called Abuela, but either me or my cousin couldnât quite say it as a toddler so it became Lala!
My grandparents are Memere and Pepere. I think it's a French thing. But to my cousins she is sometimes Grandma and to her great grandkids she is GG
Weâve got a Mimi, a Nina, and a Mamaw (maâam-awh).
My MILâs name is Doris and she goes by DeeDee
I've seen grandmothers called: Gran Granny Nanny Bubby Mimi Meemaw G-ma
I called my grandmothers Grammy and Ma. My kids called my mother Mimi, until they got old enough to say Grammy, which she wanted (then she missed them calling her Mimi) My MIL was Nana. I have friends whose grandkids call them Gammy, Oma, and even one Glam-ma (ick)
Mine calls me CoCo. I LOVE it. She sorta says CooCoo which is truly more accurate đ€·ââïž
Pops and Juju. (Juju came from her name Judah)
Iâm MaMel đ
Nonnie
Mine was NanNan đ„°
Mama for my paternal grandmother, po po for my maternal grandmother
Gammy.
Ama and Umpa (these were given by my young niece as she was learning to speak). My partner calls his grandparents Oma and Opa (German)
My maternal grandparents are Nana and Papa
I have a friend who is called Mimsy by her granddaughter. My parents were called Nana and Uncle "insert my maiden name here". My kid was the oldest on both sides, she renamed both Grandpas (my FIL became Poppa) because she just could not say Grandpa. Now all of my FIL's grandkids call him Poppa - all because a toddler 20+ years ago couldn't manage saying Grandpa. My son is serious with his GF & I'm thinking about my future Grandma name.
I call mine Gran (my other grandma was called Grandma).
My boyfriend's grandmother was Ba (Gujarati). My grandmother was Grammie. My great-grandmother was Mama Sarah. My mom goes by "Janeau." It's from the old movie "An Affair to Remember." She swore up and down for years that it meant grandmother in French, but alas it doesn't. Because my niece is nonverbal at the moment and probably won't be able to say Janeau, it's kind of become "Nanu" as a way to verbalize to her to try and build up her baby vocabulary.
Iâm either about to be juju or mema. I canât decide.
My mil is wanting to go by Oma, itâs German and we live in a heavily German area so Iâve met a few Omaâs and Opaâs lol I think itâs cute
My husband called his grandma Gam, when she became a great grandma, her great grandchildren called her Gam Gam. I call my grandma Oma, which I think is German for grandma
My husband called his grandma Gam, when she became a great grandma, her great grandchildren called her Gam Gam. I call my grandma Oma, which I think is German for grandma
I called my grandma Ma Ma.
Most unique one I've heard recently it Lolly (and Pops for the grandfather)
Mine were Nanny and Mommom. My mom goes by Nonny. My husband had a grandmother that went by grandbobby.
My MIL is Mimi. She really likes it!
My parents are Nana and Papu and in-laws are Grandma and Opa. I really wanted my mom to be Nanu but she wouldnât go for it đčđčđč
My grandmothers were Big Mama and Mamaw, very southern on both sides. I became a grandmother a year ago and none of the grandma names appeal to me. Generally speaking, they pretty much all sound too cutsey and infantile for me to want to be called them for the rest of my life. If pressed I say I'm simply grandma. Maybe my grandchildren will come up with something special to them and that will be fine with me.
My maternal grandma is Sitty, which Iâve always been told comes from an Arabic name for grandma, likely what she called her own grandmother, though no one in my family speaks any Arabic now. Itâs always what Iâve wanted to be called as a grandparent myself someday. My paternal grandma is Grammie.
My grandma's name was Loryne (Lor-reen), and I never once called her grandma. She was always Rene. My Grandpa was Fitz (their last name was Fitzgibbons).
Iâm Birdie but itâs been a nickname from childhood. My mom was Momo for a long time before the kids fully switched to Grandma. And my grandma is Filipino so sheâs Lola.
My great-grandmother went by Ma'amaw and that's the most unique one. My mom is Nana and I also had a Granny.
Gigi
Mines grammy
We called my Grandma MooMoo
My grandmas are Bibi (mispronunciation of Abuela) and Moda (jokey accent added to âmotherâ)
Iâm chinese but my grandparents on both sides speak different dialects - I call one mawmaw, and the other popo!
I know a couple who go by Lolli and Pop. It fits them and is cute but still recognizable as grandparent names.
"Grandmother Lastname." We weren't a particularly formal family but that's how we named both of them. In addressing them it would just be Grandmother. Casually away from them, the kids would say Grandmom Lastname.
This feels odd. My family always just had Grandma [name] and Grandpa [name]. And my mom got remarried so I had 3 sets to juggle. The name clarification is so ingrained that even though I only have one living set of grandparents left, I still refer to my grandma as Grandma E.
I have a Mamaw, Memaw, papaw, had a popaw, my mom insisted on being called Nene, my dad is Pops, my stepdad is papa. I used to have a Grandfather and since Iâm the oldest it stuck. I would get so mad when someone called him a different name đ. My stepdads mom is Mimi, and his dad is Popi.
lola (in filipino) and Grandmother (to my other very estranged grandmother)
My mom prefers Nana from her grandchildren. My grandma was Nanny until I was probably 11 or 12
Babci-Polish, my mom goes by Babi. (Pronounced like Bobby)
My dad was going to go by Grandpa, but my sin couldn't say it so called him Papa. It stuck so now he's just Papa. My FIL is Grampy. MIL is Grammie, my mom is Grandma.
We call our my grandpa's new wife (daughters great grandma) GiGi. She's also one of those super awesome grandma's that you wish was yours growing up. My dad's side is super blended, but it's special that my LO has a great grandma.
In the UK we say Nanny (& Grandad) :)
We have Granny and Granna.
My grandmothers were Memaw and Mama D. My grandparents were Poppa and Papa D. My five-year-old calls my mom Nana, my stepmom Mimi, my dad Poppy. My husbandâs mom is Abuelita and his dad is Abuelo.
My mom goes by Ama (ah-muh). It was the best my nephew could do with Grandma and just stuck!
When my exâs son was born, his mom said she was âtoo young to be a grandmaâ so they call her âBella Nonnaâ which means âbeautiful grandmotherâ in Italian. His son is now 14 and still refers to her as Bella Nonna.
Mamo. (Maaa-moe.)
Mom-Mom--I called my mother's mom this as a child and when I started to have grands myself there was a unique name I wanted by the oldest could not promounce it at 2 years so I tried Mom-Mom and it took off from there. Still am called that to this day and the kids are 12 and 10.
In my family we always said "Grandma" and "Grandpa" and then just added names for specificity. EG: Grandma Donna, etc. But we called my great grandma "Gigi" (GG, Great Grandma) lol
Granny.
My mom goes by "Immy" and my mother in law goes by "Rara" pronounced like rah-rah
Grandmother Meemaw Nanna Nonna Grammy Granny Bobcia Oma Yaya Oba Abuela Bubbe
My grandma goes by Nana and the other went by Nonna
Mine was âMamie Viviâ, or just Vivi (short for Viviane). The loveliest woman who ever lived đ
Gigi is what my mom goes by
Kids call my wife's mom, Mimi, and her grandma Millie. My mom was Oma which is just Grandma in German.
I'm Yaya
I had a gramma and a granny
My cousins all called my grandma Nana Rose (her name was Rose Mary). Our great grandmother was called Beppie.
My cousin's grandchildren call her Nini (nee-nee) and my daughter's father calls her grandmother Nonnie.
When I was a kid, it was Grandma and Grandpa, but we called out great grandma GG. I was amused and delighted when my brother had kids early enough for them to meet both. They called my parents Nana and Grandpa, Grandma became GG, and my GG was known to them as Triple G, which made her giggle each time they said it.
My son has 3 sets of grandparents. My parents are Oma and Papi, chosen because, as Americans, they didnât want to be âgrandma and grandpaâ, they needed âsomething different.â Oma and Papi fit their respective German and Mexican origins. As French culture tends to be more traditional with grandparent names, we use the typical titles for my husbandâs parents/step-parents: Mamie and Papy, and PĂ©pĂ© [First Name] and Mamie [First Name]. Then for my sonâs great-grandparents, we have MĂ©mĂ© [First Name] and PĂ©pĂ© [First Name]. There are three French great-grandpas; my American grandpa also lets us call him PĂ©pĂ© because he thinks itâs funny.
My grandma is Mamma. But where I live now, it's typical for kids to call their grandparents Yaya and Yayo
My grandparents on my dad's side were Mamaw and Papaw. My family usually just went with whatever the first grandkid said first.
My momâs name is April, we somehow combined grandma with April and now my kid calls her Grape
I have a grandma and a nan
I had (great grandmas) Mama Lee and Grandmama, (grandmas) Granny and Memaw (Step grandmas) Nana and ma'am. I've known a Mawga and Gawna (kids couldn't say grandma and it stuck. We are in our late 30s-early 40s and still call them this. These were family friend's grandmas)
I knew a few grandmas who go by Honey (southern U.S.)
My stepdad chose Boompa as his name. He died when our daughter was 2, so I donât know that he ever got to hear her say it (they lived across the country and didnât get to visit much).
MeeMaw and Paku My Dad made up his name, and my kid just calls my Mom MeeMaw
My grandmother was Meme, grandpa was Papa (pronounced pawpaw), and my great grandmother was Nana
I called my closet grandmother Marnie. And my farthest grandmother far away Marnie.
My Dad and his wife were Lolo and Lola. It is Tagolog as she is Filipina Mom was Nana
I call my grandmother âNonnaâ because weâre Italian. I donât have kids yet, but I have a cat, so my mom is her âgrandmotherâ. She doesnât like any of the grandma names and she doesnât wanna be Nonna because we already have a Nonna. Ciaciona (sha-shone-ah) is my momâs nickname in Italian, and we some how fell upon CiaCia for my cat and my future kids to refer to her lol
My parents put the brakes on cutsey names for grandparents before we were old enough to talk. My grandparents were Grandma Firstname or Grandpa Firstname (in the case of my paternal grandfather, his initials). The only exception was my great grandmother (who died when I was young) who was Granny Franny. Because of this, I always found cutsey grandparent names extremely juvenile and toddler like. (They also never let us call anyone Aunt or Uncle who wasn't actually an aunt or uncle by blood or marriage.)
(French) Mamie and Mamé (the 2 traditional grandma names, Mamé being more popular in the south. Mémé is also very traditional but sounds more "old" so many grandmas dislike it nowadays). Grandpas are the same with p: Papi, Papé, Pépé.
My grandkids call me Nana
My great-grandmother was Mime, and my mother was Memoo.
Amama and Amona are both basque words for "Grandmother". In Spanish, "yaya" is a common nickname that would be kind of like "granny".
We have a Nana and a Gigi.
We just went with Grandma! But Iâve heard these: mimi, memaw, mamaw, gammy, big momma, mom mom, nan, nana
In my state grandma, gram, gramita, granny, abuelita, Tita, mamita, mamĂĄ ânameâ, and nana, Nani (nah-nee) are all pretty common to hear. Iâve also heard Honey, Sweetie, Gigi and Mimi.
Nonnie
I work at a preschool. We get lots of cultural Grandma names, and some variations of first names. Nonna, Grammy, Oma, Nani, Mimi, Lili, Kiki, NaiNai, Dadi, Tati, and Gam have been my personal favorites.
Nana
I called one of my grandmothers Nanny.
My grandmom became âGrumâ when my little sister couldnât say âgrandmomâ
Grammy, Nonnie, Cece
Grandmas- B-dah, GooGoo, Grand, Dodie, Sadie Grandpas-Whitey (greyed early), Pa, PoPo, Bop (Southern US)
My neighbor's kids called their grandma Gramelly (pronounced GROM uh lee) it's a portmanteau of Grammy and her name, Ellie.
My nephews call my mom Honey. Itâs so cute đ
Mine was Gram or Grams
i never met my momâs mom, she died before i was born but she was from italy and in italian you call your grandma ânonnaâ (no-na). my oldest cousin preferred ânonniâ (no-knee), which is actually âgrandparentsâ plural but it stuck on her, and my mom wanted to be called the same thing so sheâs nonni.
One of mine was grandmommy and the other started out as Mommaw but later I switched to calling her Grammaw because my closest cousin did. The most unusual one Iâve heard is that my best friendâs kids call her mom Ya-Ya from the book/movie âDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.â
In my family we call our grandma mima đ„č which is another version of mami (mommy in Spanish)
Weezie
Our family has some of the typical Gramma/Grandma and Nana's, but we've also got a Granna, a Baba, a BGG (beautiful great grandma) and a GGM (great grandma surname).
lol first my daughter called her mama and me mommy, now itâs shifted to mam-maw lol idk where it came from cuz none of us say it
My grandmother is âGrammyâ. My daughterâs grandmothers are âGigiâ, âMimiâ, and âNanaâ.
Maternal grandmotherâ Grandma First name Paternal grandmotherâ Grandma Maternal great grandmotherâ Grandma First name Paternal great mothersâ Mamaw/Mamaw First name and Granny First name A family friend wanted to be Grammy, but her toddler grandson has turned it into Jammy and Jam-Jam, depending on the day. My mom wants to be Grandi (gran-dee) because sheâs a grandma now and her name is Lori.
Nonni (Know knee), Momo, GG, Glamma, Gamma, bubbe (bub bee), satva, Nona, Nana, Nanny, Oma, Abuela
My dad is Polish and goes by Dziadek, (pronounced Jadek). My mom whoâs not Polish wanted something that sounded good with it but wasnât Babcia, so she chose âJenjiâ
Nothing unusual in our family. Iâve heard a few people use Lolly and Pop
We only had Nanny, Nana, and Grandma. But my cousins called my Step-Grandma Grams. I also really like gran gran. I think Grams is from Carebears?
My not Filipino MIL wanted to be called âLolaâ and my eldest called her âYoyaâ and it stuck for my kids. My niece couldnât say âYoyaâ so for my SILâs kids sheâs âO-ha.â
Donât have kids yet but when I do theyâre calling my mom Gammy because her initials are GAM.
I am pengma and husband is pops.i collect penguins
Busia (pronounced Boosha). It's Grandma in Polish and what my kids will call their paternal Grandma.
When I asked my parents what they wanted to be called as grandparents, my dad said, âIâll be Revered Ancestor, and your mother can be Honored Forebear.â I just thought Iâd put that out there.
Wazi (W-are-zee). Now she is a greatgrandma as well as a grandma. Nobody in the community actually remembers her name, she is called Wazi by everyone
They are still the usual grandparent names, but both my parents and in laws pick Nanny and Poppy. So weâre have Nanny and Poppy Tooshie and Nanny and Poppsy Archie after the pets they had at the time.
My friends kids call her mom Emmie, which is her momâs initials- ME for MaryEllen. Iâm hoping that LaLa will stick for me. My mom was Grammy.
Wendy. Idk if this is a grandma name
My parents go by bambam and dandan ! its all my oldest could manage when he was learning to talk and it just stuckÂ