Grandmother names...what's your mom's name?

atack · May 2011

What will your baby be calling your mom and dad or in laws?

Pop Pop is definitely my stepdad's, but my mom can't decide.

mlc100805 · May 2011

DD calls my mother "Nana", my step mother "Granny", my MIL "Grandma" and DH's grandmother "Gigi". I'm glad everyone agreed to a different name so it's less confusing for DD!

crystal959 · May 2011

I let DD decide what to call my parents. She calls my mom Grandma and my dad Papa Tony. I love how Italian it sounds.

MIL decided her name (Memere, I hate it and refuse to say it, it sounds so pretentious when MIL says it "meh-may") and FIL signs everything Pop Pop but it sounds like Papa to me when she talks to him.

DarrenAndMelissa · May 2011

Hubby's side - Grandma and Grandpa

My side - Grammy and Grampy

We're not very original.

September2007 · May 2011

My mom and dad will be Nana & Papa. MIL & FIL will be Grandma & Grandpa. They decided on what they wanted at our combined family dinner in April -- and everyone was happy!

Whatever works for them, works for me. Big Smile

sapphirewolfkdv · May 2011

Grandma and grandpa. I'm not really one for cutsie names, and unless LO comes up with a name for them himself and it sticks, then it'll just be Grandma and Grandpa on both sides. I always called both sets of grandparents "grandma" and "grandpa" and it never confused me.

jntaylor11 · May 2011

I'm not really sure that is my or their decision... I mean you can encourage them to say a certain name, but chances are they won't be able to say it. Sometime the name they butcher sticks... Lol

mama livingston · May 2011

my nephew calls my mother "Nina" somehow he changed nana to nina so I think we'll stick with that when our baby is here because dh mom wants to be nana so I think it works. As far as my step father he'll be pop pop and dh's father will grandpa.

DanielleD7 · May 2011

My mom would like to be called "nana" but knows it could end up being something different. We don't know about anyone else.

atack · May 2011

jntaylor11:
I'm not really sure that is my or their decision... I mean you can encourage them to say a certain name, but chances are they won't be able to say it. Sometime the name they butcher sticks... Lol

I totally agree with this! I was to call my grandmother nana and with my whiny voice I kept changing it to Nannn-ny. So nanny stuck.

I was just curious. I think Granny Sue would be cute. As DH's parents want Grandma and Grandpa.

posey46 · May 2011

My parents are Gram and B-pa. Don't know what my in-laws want to be just yet.

NativeFloridian · May 2011

My mom and stepdad are Nana and Papa, and my dad and stepmom are Nona and Pepaw.

sunnydaisy · May 2011

My IL's are Grandma & Grandpa. My parents are Gran Jan (mom's name is Jan) & Grandaddy.

Gran Jan came about from neighborhood kids after my siblings and I had moved out of my parents house. Once they actually had grandchildren, it stuck. :-)

cc51 · May 2011

Totally unrelated, but one of my good friends had a baby girl today and named it Hadley Mae! Love the name

cc51 · May 2011

mlc100805:
DD calls my mother "Nana", my step mother "Granny", my MIL "Grandma" and DH's grandmother "Gigi". I'm glad everyone agreed to a different name so it's less confusing for DD!

Totally unrelated, but one of my good friends had a baby girl today and named it Hadley Mae! Love the name

BabyQuizzle · May 2011

My MIL will be called grandma in Chinese (sounds like "Ning-ning kind of) and my mom will be Noni. But my dad is a different story. He has some aging issues to say the least

and wants to be either Grand-Dude or G-Daddy. <roll eyes> But I love him and and can be whatever he wants . . . I just hope LO picks something normal and that my dad falls to pieces when he hears it for the first time

belleaur · May 2011

We have an ajee and ajaa (it's Hindi and I have no clue how to spell it) and a nonnie and papa (my parents). My son picked the names for my parents when he was a baby. It stuck so it works.

jennypenny1014 · May 2011

My mom's side of the family is Dutch, so her mother was always Oma to me, then her father/stepmom were Grandma and Grandpa. My dad's parents passed before I was 2. Now that my mom is a grandmother, she will also be Oma to our son, and my stepdad will be Papa. ILs will be Grandma and Grandpa. My Oma will be Omi (pronounced O-mee) and my Grandma (my mom's stepmom) will be Gigi.

My father will likely be Grandpa also...if he gets his sh!t together such that I will allow him to be anywhere near his grandson...

michellenicole09 · May 2011

My parents will be Mamaw and Papaw. DHs Dad will also be Papaw and his stepmom will be Nana. We havent figured out about DHs mother yet.

Phil413 · May 2011

My mom and dad will be Grammy and Grandpa, ILs will be Nana and Papa or PopPop (whatever sticks).

kjgilhoo · May 2011

My mom will likely be Grandma and SOs mom will be Nan or Nanny (that's what my nephews call her now). Sadly our kids won't have Grandfather's. They will have Great-Grandfather's though (hopefully for longer than not). In that case my Grandad will be Great-Grandad and SO's Pop will probably be Pop K and his Nan will be Nan K.

SO's stepmom will be Nanny C (her name is Connie).

Oneday82 · May 2011

I know this probably sounds strange but I hate the way all "grandparent" nicknames sound other than the traditional, "Grandma and grandpa". With that said, neither set of grandparents are going with that. My mom and dad are "Nanny and Papaw" and my in laws are "Grand daddy (which I will automatically want to follow with "long legs" hee hee) and Mere (french for mother which I think is weird, since she is not my daughters mother, but apparently that is what she called her grandmother growing up....)

alubins · May 2011

I'm polish, so LO will call my parents Babcia (grandma) and Dziadek (grandpa). My ILs are german so they will go by Oma and Opa.

live4whatulove · May 2011

Grandmother on Mommy's side is Nanna, Grandfather on Mommy's side is Grampa, Grandmother on Daddy's side is Mammy, Grandfather on Daddy's side is Papa(poppa), Great-grandmother's are Gramma, Grammy and Gramma. Great-grandfathers are both Poppy! LOL

ohfour · May 2011

We have Mimi and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa.

Mrs. Stew · May 2011

September2007:
My mom and dad will be Nana & Papa. MIL & FIL will be Grandma & Grandpa.

This exactly.

brandy4nicole · May 2011

My in-laws are Granny and PawPaw (DH's Mom and Step-Dad) and the others are Nana and Pappaw Jack (DH's Dad and Step-Mom)

michigan momma · May 2011

My mom They call Grammy and my mom'smom they called GIGI. My step mom they call Grandma Jo (her name is mary JO) and my dad's mom Meemaw. My husbands mom they call Grandma, and her mom they call Great. I asked my mom and she told be...I reallt want to be called grammy, that was 6 yrs and 4 kids ago and it has stuck...lol

carolinag · May 2011

timmy calls my mom Grandma, and my dad Grandpa. if we get into it he knows that they're Grandma Donna & Grandpa Pete.

dh's parents are Grandma Kiki & Grandpa John. he always includes the names.

tink7227 · May 2011

jennypenny1014:

My mom's side of the family is Dutch, so her mother was always Oma to me, then her father/stepmom were Grandma and Grandpa. My dad's parents passed before I was 2. Now that my mom is a grandmother, she will also be Oma to our son, and my stepdad will be Papa. ILs will be Grandma and Grandpa. My Oma will be Omi (pronounced O-mee) and my Grandma (my mom's stepmom) will be Gigi.

My father will likely be Grandpa also...if he gets his sh!t together such that I will allow him to be anywhere near his grandson...

My H is 100% Duutch and I wanted his parents to be Oma and Opa but they didn't take to it so they are just plain Grandma and Grandpa. My parents are Grammie and Papa. I have a friend who's kids call her MIL Granna and I think that is cute.

SoBlessed2011 · May 2011

My parents grandma and grandpa. My DH parents grandma (first name) and grandpa (first name)

BK33 · May 2011

My neice calls my mom Grandmom so that's probably gonna stick but my children have ALOT of grandparents so it will probably grandmom_____ so we know which one he's referring to. I have two moms (adopted/biological) MH has two moms (biological and stepmom) and MH's grandmom is still alive but nobody calls her great grandmom so she's grandmom_____ too.

quietvoice · May 2011

Back before my brother and SIL had kids, my parents had said they wanted to be Nana and Grandpops. Well, my oldest nephew called them what he wanted, and so for the last 16 years they've been Mom-o and Dad-o. We'll probably stick with those.

My IL's don't have other grandkids yet, so they're wanting to be Nita-mom (her name is Anita) and Jim-dad. I think those are cute names and hope LO uses them... but after seeing what went down with my parents... well, we'll just have to see.

amyegunnip · May 2011

My mom is "Mimi" to her grandkids, my stepdad is "Poppy", my dad is "Grandpa" and my ILs will be the traditional Grandma & Grandpa. I grew up with a Nana/Papa and Oma/Opa (my dad's mother is German)

peainthepod11 · May 2011

Oneday82:
I know this probably sounds strange but I hate the way all "grandparent" nicknames sound other than the traditional, "Grandma and grandpa". With that said, neither set of grandparents are going with that. My mom and dad are "Nanny and Papaw" and my in laws are "Grand daddy (which I will automatically want to follow with "long legs" hee hee) and Mere (french for mother which I think is weird, since she is not my daughters mother, but apparently that is what she called her grandmother growing up....)

This is how I feel unless you are using a name from another culture. My MIL has aging issues and refuses to be called Grandma...everything she's come up with so far has sounded completely rediculous so I'm praying the baby will come up with his/her own nickname.

somethingscookin · May 2011

I know I'm a little late here but my mom = Grammy, my dad = Grampy, MIL = Grandma, and FIL = Pa.

ExpatFamily06 · May 2011

Ds calls my mom 'mee mee' while trying to say Grammy. He calls my dad 'Pap Pap.' My mil is called 'Yia Yia' and my fil is called 'ampa Ali' while trying to say Grandpa Ali

samanthahollman · May 2011

It's really hard to tell your kids what to call your parents. With DD, she couldn't say grandma for the longest time, so it was "Mimi". She didn't call my MIL anything until she could say Grandma.

When my nephew was born my sister was insistent that he call our mom "Grandma". Do you think that happened? Nope. He would hear DD call her "Mimi" so that's what she is. He now calls ALL of his G-ma's "Mimi".

My Dad (who has passed) is known as "Papa Joe" and FIL is "Papa".

Themetastic · May 2011

My parents will be Nana and Papa. My ILs will be Grandma & Grandpa.

BetsyDavis · May 2011

Well DD just started calling SO's dad papa on her own. We always called him grandpa and one day she was just like papa papa. As for my mom and SO mom she calls them both nama. She can't quite say grandma and that is what comes out. Personally my mom and SO parents had no say in what she calls them. My nephew calls my mom nana. So my mom get called nana Rose and nama.