Grandparent names - cute or annoying?

sweetieheart32 · October 2014

I just found out that my FIL wants our baby to call him "Pop Pop". My sister's FIL wanted to be called "Grandfellow" (that didn't happen). I've heard Me-maw, Maw-Maw, Mee-Mee, Pee-Paw, Paw-Paw, and all other sorts of stuff. I'm thinking, well, how would you feel later on in life telling someone when you're 40 how much you loved your Pop Pop. What happened to Grandma and Grandpa?

What do you guys think? What have your parents/in-laws requested so far?

SassyPants150 · October 2014

My mom is called Nanny...she gave herself that name because my oldest nephew is almost 22. She didn't want to be called "Grandma" yet. My dad is Granddaddy.

FIL was adamant that they only be called Grandma and Grandpa but DD started calling in Poppy so he got all mushy over it and it stuck. MIL is Grandma.

texasmama15 · October 2014

I think any of those names for grandparents can be considered "norm". I have a grandma/grandpa/Grammy and DH has meemaw, papa, pawpaw, grandma and granny so I'm never surprised by grandparent names! I still call my Grammy by that name when talking to friends about her for whatever reason. I think most of us understand that we all call our grandparents something different and don't think of it as strange.

Poppy715 · October 2014

I find most of them annoying. I do really like GG for great grandma. My parents tried all kinds of stupid names with my nephews. My dad also goes by Papa which my maternal grandfather went by. I no longer associate with him and I have issues with him as a person. Now that name is sort of tainted for me. Dh's side does Grandma (First name). Grandma Mary and Grandma Loris (Delores). I like that. I grew up with a grandma and a grammy. We knew which we were referring to by what we called them. My Grammy was never grandma.

Pintobean39 · October 2014

My boys had 6 grandmothers it gets confusing if they are just called the regular names "maw maw and grandmaw". You have to get creative.

animaldoctor12 · October 2014

@sweetieheart32‌ I had a Pop-Pop and never felt weird saying it is an adult. There certainly are worse names out there.

Pintobean39 · October 2014

animaldoctor12 said:
I had a Pop-Pop and never felt weird saying it is an adult. There certainly are worse names out there.

My husband biological grandfather they call "son of a bitch". Pop pop sounds sooooo much better to me. :-)

sweetieheart32 · October 2014

DH and I were buying a mattress a few years back and I mentioned something about my Granny to the salesman, just making conversation. He suddenly got so excited because that's what he called his grandmother. He just thought it was so cool that someone else had a Granny, too. It was kinda funny how happy that made him.

RustyGirl3 · October 2014

My Mom is Nanny
My Dad is Poppy

MIL is Grandma
FIL is Pop

My SIL is a grandmother. She is Grammy.

beezybaby · October 2014

My parents are Grandpa and Honey (my nephew named her randomly when he was 2). Her original name was Tam Tam bc her real name is Tamara, but it just never stuck.

DH's parents are Wawa (nephew couldn't say Grandma) and Papa.

OOOO another set I like are my late SIL's parents, Doc (because he is a doctor) and Deedee.

I love grandparent names. Some are a little silly, but when someone is forty, they don't go around talking about loving their Pee-Paw, the just say grandmother or grandfather....

lakingsfan2015 · October 2014

My maternal grandmother was grandma and my kids called her great granny. My paternal grandparents were abuela and abuelo.

My grandma sister was aunt Nana and my mother's sister is Nanny.

My mom is grandma and my dad is pepaw, my MIL is Babka.

Ballet80 · October 2014

My in laws are Nana and Pop. My parents are called Grumps (because my dad is a grump) and Nona-I think it means grandmother in another language. I don't think it matters as long as the kids can say it and the grandparents like it. My husband's grandmother is Tee, her real name is Margaret but none of her siblings could say her name so everyone called her Tee, now even the grandchildren call her that.

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rivers714 · October 2014

My family reproduces young and lives long. So my son has his grandfather, great grandfather, and great great grandfather alive until he was almost 5. So we need to get creative with names lol. My mom is Nonni, my gram is grandma, and my great gram
Was Nana

TeacherMom2015 · October 2014

My grandparents were Mimi and Grandad

My mom is HoneyGram. My dad is Grandad.

My b/f's mom is Nana.

ellab043 · October 2014

We have a Gran ( DD"s great grandmother) , Papaw, and then Grammie and Gigi. On the other side we have Nanny and Poppy. I think some of the name variations are because there were so many grandparents. I think it would have been crazy confusing for our little if she just called everyone Grandma and Grandpa.

kj808 · October 2014

Our parents just go by Grandma (first name) and Grandpa. Before he died, my dad was Papa to his grandkids.

Growing up though I had a Nana, Tutu, and Popo.

My uncle and his wife make their grandkids call them "Honey" and "Handsome". I think that's more weird than Nana or Popo.

tradster2007 · October 2014

My parents are Yaya and Papoo. In-laws are Nana and Pop Pop because SIL had a baby 8 years ago and we just kept it the same. I'm not a particular fan of Pop Pop but didn't really have a choice.

NicoleSoch · October 2014

We didn't force anything. Grandfathers in my family were always referred to as Poppa so I just used that term and we added the first names for less confusion as he got older. But my MIL demanded to be called Nana (rolls eyes). My mother is referred to as Mah-Maw I guess he couldn't pronounce Grandma and it just came out like that! Its pretty cute I just don't know if it will stick as he gets older!

FreddyisReady · October 2014

I think its sweet. And that grandparents should be allowed to choose their names.

monkeypunkypie · October 2014

For my kids, my 2 sets of parents are simply grandma and grandpa. However, I called my maternal grandma Momo and my maternal grandpa Popo until the day they died. I could never bring myself to call them grandma and grandpa and it never felt weird.

KellyFM522 · October 2014

My dad is Big Pop which was what he called his GF. And my mom is Nana which she didn't want but that's what DS calls her.

My MIL wanted to be called Momma Carri, well my nephew calls her Carri Grandma. DS doesn't really call her anything yet. And my FIL is PawPaw by our nephew but DH doesn't like it so he's been coaching DS to say Grandpa.

My nephew also calls me Kelly Mommy. And my SIL Britt Mommy

sb184 · October 2014

Well I'm lucky to still have both of my grandmothers alive. We call one grandmama and the other nana. My mom wanted to be grandmama, but since her mother is grandmama and still living my mom is going to choose another name. I'm okay with whatever she chooses. I think she's leaning for Go-Ma (she's always traveling). My dad passed away 2 years ago so it's just my FIL and I think he wants grandpa. As far as my MIL I'm thinking she'll be Grammy.

tiggyt · October 2014

All these grandparent names sound nice. The only ones I don't like are when they let one-year-olds name the grandparent. (My parents neighbors are M'nah and B'dee - wtf?)

My grandparents were Grandma (Mom's mom) and Nanny and Papa (Dad's parents). Dad wants to be Papa, and Mom does NOT want to be Grandma or Nanny, which is fine, but she doesn't want to be anything else, either. I've suggested Granny - that's what DH called two of his grandmothers (one was a "great"), and she seems to be warming to that one.

DH's dad texted one day a couple months ago saying he wanted to be Pops, and now that's how he signs his cards.

Mimi63 · October 2014

I call my grandparents grandma and grandpa, but my 40 year old cousin still calls them Granny and Poppy and nobody bats an eye at it.

My son calls my grandma GG, all of the grandpas Pa, and the grandma Lala.

mh238911 · October 2014

I'm actually dreading this discussion. My brother and SIL didn't give my parents an option- they were "Mamaw and Papaw" and that was that. My dad was not happy, and informed us that he thought it sounded "trashy", which to me is ridiculous, but whatever. 7 years later and he is still bitter about it. But the worst part is that now I live in Southern Ohio, and "Mamaw and Papaw" is really common. MIL and FIL expect to be called that. So I think I'm just going to refer to everyone as "Grandma _ and Grandpa _" until this babe is old enough to give them a name.

mpiemont · October 2014

I've heard of all kinds of names- my parents go by grandma and grandpa but for some reason my 1.5 year old started calling my dad "papa" so now he has 2 names. I'm from an Italian family so I've heard Nona, Nonie, etc for grandma. I would let the grandparents pick if it means that much to them.

MallyJM128 · October 2014

My parents are Poppa and Marie (pronounced mah-ree) and inlaws are Grandma and Grandpap. FIL has recently started calling himself Pap-Pap though which I find kind of silly but whatever.

They're fairly normal compared to some of the other nicknames in my family..we've got some bizarre ones.

wingardium3 · October 2014

My gramdmother, we call Oma. Which I believe is grandma in German. She was 40 when she became a grandma and didn't want to be called that. No one in her social circle knew what Oma meant, and still nearly 30 years later no one does.

Nita2603 · October 2014

My mother is Oma. For the longest time, my oldest called her gugu (googoo) for unknown reasons. She hated it, he wasn't budging. That's the way it is.

My ILs are grandma and grandpa. However, due to some speech delays, right now they are grama and bapa. It's coming, though. :-)

Nita2603 · October 2014

wingardium3 said:
My gramdmother, we call Oma. Which I believe is grandma in German. She was 40 when she became a grandma and didn't want to be called that. No one in her social circle knew what Oma meant, and still nearly 30 years later no one does.

Oma is German for grandma indeed.

kaynix21 · October 2014

I have had no requests yet....thank goodness I guess? My bff out here, her in laws made a whole deal about it because they didn't want to be called the same things as her parents were going to be.

I just called my mom's parents grandma and grandpa. my dad's grandma and papa (no clue why).

My husband and his sister called their's Granny and Gran-Gran for one side of their family

smontz · October 2014

My mom wants to be called "Boo Boo Kitty." Not sure why she's so stuck on that name, but even though we try to veto she's still sticking to it. Guess we have until May to convince her of something else! I refuse to call anyone Boo Boo Kitty.

coastlinemama · October 2014

I think Pop Pop is cute. My husband's dad wanted to be Papa so that's what he is, and my mom is Nana just like my Nana was to me. My step dad is supposedly "grandpa" but there's no way Avery will be calling him that. He's an ass.

KellyFM522 · October 2014

smontz said:
My mom wants to be called "Boo Boo Kitty." Not sure why she's so stuck on that name, but even though we try to veto she's still sticking to it. Guess we have until May to convince her of something else! I refuse to call anyone Boo Boo Kitty.

Boo boo kitty made me choke on my water. Too funny. Along the lines of Bunny, but boo boo???

mh238911 · October 2014

@smontz‌ oh that's hilarious! my mom seriously used to call me that (and sometimes still does just to bug me)...

jraeohyeaaa · October 2014

Both sets of my grandparents were Grandma "first name" and Grandpa "first name." However my husband's grandparents were Nana, Papa, Mimi, and Grandpa. Because this will be the first grandbaby on both sides we get some say in the nicknames. I just want Grandma and Grandpa but I think my husband will want more nickname-y names...maybe my parents can be Gma & Gpa and his can have the funny nicknames.

kaynix21 · October 2014

smontz said

My mom wants to be called "Boo Boo Kitty." Not sure why she's so stuck on that name, but even though we try to veto she's still sticking to it. Guess we have until May to convince her of something else! I refuse to call anyone Boo Boo Kitty.

Idk what happened to the quote box here....

but why?!

OnceInLoveWithAmy · October 2014

Growing up we had Big Grandmom an Little Grandmom. "Big" was 5'2 and "Little" was 4'11, haha.
As I got older, I started calling my only living grandmother "Gram".

My ILs go by MomMom and PopPop HOWEVER (and my husband fights this) they all pronounce it MumMum and PupPup, so that's what I call them.

My mom decided to go by Mem. I have no idea where she got this from, but she said she felt like Grandmom, Nanny or any of those variations didn't fit her. So she's Mem. My dad goes by Pop. I think he was going for Grandpop, but my eldest niece could only say Pop, and it stuck. It suits him.

For great grandmothers, my Grandmother was GiGi, but my husbands grandmother goes by BaBa. I think it's the Ukrainian word for grandmother.

eyeager128 · October 2014

My "interesting" MIL wants to be called Cassy because her maiden name was Cassidy. It's not happening. It makes me angry just thinking about it.

Ibliss · October 2014

My grandparents were Grandma last name and Grandpa last name. I think nicknames are a bit silly. But my parents insisted on Grammy (ug rubs me the wrong way, sounds whiny) and Papa. I just have a hard time seeing them that way. Maybe DD will give them better nicknames when she is old enough to talk.

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