Weird Grandparent names

Matildasun

My sister chose what my parents would be called, because she had the first grandchild. They are DeeDee and Grumpy. 

My in-laws chose their own names. My MIL wants to be Nana or Nona (Both fine names) but pronounced Naa-Naa (Like a sheep says Baa) and my FIL wants to be Poppy.

Hopefully Ada will use these as starting points to come up with her own names for them.

 

jcsntms06

I haven't heard Grumpy before. Interesting.

 My MIL wanted to be known as Nana (it's stuck) and FIL was to be called grandpaw, but I think my niece calls him pop pop. I'm going to let Annabelle call my IL's anything she wants. Help her with Nana and pop pop. 

SnoopyLuv

I called my maternal grandmother "Silly", we were playing with my baby sister one day and she called her Silly and it just stuck. I love cool grandparent names like that. My grandpa was Pop Pop so my Dad (his son) is Pop for now.

Maybe Grumpy was a mispronounciation of Grandpa and somehow it got mangled? I think it's kind of cute.

DD has a bunch of Grandma's- Grandma Debbie, Barbara and Allyson until she decides to call them something different. It makes it nice for things now because those  "I love Grandma" onesies work for all of them

 

KathrynMD

DH's parents are Grammy and PopPop (which is what their respective parents were).  DH's paternal Grandmother was called "Audie MomMom" (Audrey was her first name - its sweet, but wow - awkward - glad his mom went w/ Grammy).

We never had cool names for my grandparents - just Grandma and Grandpa - so that's what they are for now.  DD has finally started calling Gama and Gampa - so we'll see if those stick. 

LWilli35

This was a big deal with us.  My Mom went through so many stupid (IMO) names before we got her to agree to Nana.  I mean, really?  I think the kids should name them anyway.  It got to the point where DH acutally had a dream that Bobby called her Zapata (so now that's our joke name for her).  She went through Pamma (her first name is Pamela), Mama Kay (her middle name and the name she goes by is Kay) and she tried to change my Dad's name from Papa to Papa T (Terry) as a result (NO GO!)...I was so frustrated with her.  My aunt tried to make her Grandma name with her grandkids Grandma Honey, though...that was pretty bad in my book.  Luckily her grandsons named her BeBe instead.  Good for them! 

moonfaerie

We called my dad's mother Grandsmurf. She decided she was too young to be a grandmother, and didn't want to called that. She thought Smurfs were cute, so she wanted to be Grandsmurf. She was also Smurf for short as we got older.

My LOs will have normal names for their grandparents, unless they come up with something on their own. Mine are Grandmom and Pop-Pop, and the ILs are Nana and Poppy.

daisyterp

I think that when possible it's great for it to just happen and have the child organically start calling them something.  DD sees a good amount of my parents and started calling my dad Pop-pop last year right after Christmas, I believe as a result of my uncle referring to himself as her cousin's pop-pop.  She calls my mom Gammy- I believe my mom wanted to be called grammy, but it's gammy now and she's fine w/ that. 

My ILs are another story.  Because we don't see them as often DD didn't come up w/ names for them.  They signed everything grandma and grandpa until DD established names for my parents and then started signing stuff Grammy and Pop-pop- which we never called them when she would see them in pictures, skype or talk on the phone- so we told them they had to stick with the grandma and grandpa because that's what they seemed to have wanted in the beginning.  

jnealet

Well, coming from myside of the family who called their grandparents Grandma and Big Daddy (my dad's side) and Who-Who and Dadaddy (my mom's side) our grandparent names are pretty tame.

 My mom and dad are Grandmommy and Popple.  Emily can't say Grandmommy just yet, so she calls my mom "mommy-mommy".

And DH's parents asked to be Grandma and Granddad but Emily couldn't get the g part of it, so she calls MIL "Nanma".  FIL didn't come out on this trip, so he's stuck with Granddad, I believe.

mrs. remy

DS was my parents' first grandchild and they both had odd requests. My dad wanted to be called Poppy and my mom insisted on being called Grandmama (with the emphasis on grand because she thinks it sounds european)

Matildasun

My sister wanted to call my dad Grumpy, because although he is really a sweet person, he often seems curmudgeonly.

My FIL signed a card Gramps, once and it suited him, so I thought that is what he had decided on. The last two cards he has sent he signed Gramps (for now), which made me think he didn't like it. I asked him what he wanted to be called and he told me Poppy. I have no idea why. 

Some of these stories made me smile.