Names for grandmother?

[SKL]

I am partial to "grandma / grandpa" or "granny/grampa."  I get confused with all the nanny papa mimi bapa etc.  :P

[SKL]

When I was a kid, we had Grandma Lastname1 and Granny Lastname2.  In my family, we don't do first names for grandparents.

My kids only have one set of grandparents, so that makes things a bit simpler.

[Ellie]

Congratulations!!!!

My only grandchild calls me...Grandmother. :-) My maternal grandparents were Grandmother and Poppy to all the grandchildren; I thought it was time for another generation of Grandmother and Poppy, and so we are...even though there's only one little person in that generation, but such is life, lol.

[Sugarfoot]

On 3/23/2018 at 7:53 PM, Farrar said:

My kids call me Farrar so I have zero hope that I'll even get to have a grandmother name. Maybe they won't even have kids. It's so far in the future for me.

 

One of my grandmothers wanted to be "Granny." But the oldest grandchild couldn't say it right and she became Banny. She's still called Banny, not just by us and the great grands, but by a lot of the "young people" - aka, the under 40 crowd.

This is pretty much my situation, too. My kids call me Gigi (nickname for Gina) so I figure that’ll stick for their kids, as well. My DD11 calls my DH Poppi. I have no idea why, lol. So at some point in the probably distant future, we will be Gigi and Poppi. ☺️

My grandmother called my grandfather Popsi, and I have such fond memories of it that I may start using it for my DH when we get older.

[JessReplanted]

We just went through this.  It’s really challenging to choose a name! We went with Lolli & Popsie. 

I like “Gram”, but not for another ten years or so. ?

[momofjep]

5 hours ago, JessReplanted said:

We just went through this.  It’s really challenging to choose a name! We went with Lolli & Popsie. 

I like “Gram”, but not for another ten years or so. ?

 

We're Lolli and Pop. :-) We'll see how long it takes for her to be able to pronounce the L's 

[SparklyUnicorn]

I called my grandmother memere.  Sounds like memmay.  Kids call one grandmother oma.  They only have one grandmother. 

 

 

[Baseball mom]

Grammie 

MeMe

Nannie

MawMaw

Granny

Mama (insert nickname)

Gran

 

 

 

[Lynn in al]

Grammy, nana, mimi.   My sister uses Naynay, I have no idea where that started.     A friend has her grandchildren call her Nina, yeah I don't like that one.

[KarenNC]

My dad and stepmother go by Pap-aw and Nan-aw. My in-laws are Grandma and Granddad. 

My grandparents were Mama firstname and Papa firstname, my great-grandparents (my grandmother's parents) were Mama lastname and Pop lastname. My grandfather's father was referred to as Daddy firstname.

 I didn't really have an actual relationship with my other grandmother and that grandfather also died before I knew him, so I didn't refer to them by anything at all that I can remember.

My husband called his grandparents Grandma and Granddad.