Grandparent titles

mylilwildflower · January 2016

This is a little different from the typical baby name post but I am curious what do your little one's call their grandparents? There seems to be a trend that grandparents may be getting away from the typical grandma/grandpa title.

We have a mimi/papa
Nana/Poppa

bbiutmcph · January 2016

Nonna and nonno
Nani and poppi
Nana and PapPap

asummerbride · January 2016

My parents: Nonna & Nonno (Italian for Grandma & Grandpa)
DH parents: Grandma & Grandpa

WinnieLou82 · January 2016

DH's parents are set because of what my niece and nephew call them: Grandma and Papa Joe

My mom, not sure what she wants! Maybe Grammy. But, I do know people with weird grandparent names (Bayna, Bop-o, Potter, Wowie) because that's just what the kid called them so we'll see.

satuttle1014 · January 2016

My mother will be Mimi, I figured just keep it like that since that is what my niece was calling her
My father will be Grandpa

My MIL, we are not sure what she wants to be called. I don't know if she wants something specific or see what our LO says. She isn't married, maybe Nana?

yellowbean15 · January 2016

Grandma & Grandpa
Nana & Grampy

SmrBrd2012 · January 2016

Granna
Grampy
Nana

Knottie1442268460 · January 2016

Layla for abuela in Spanish. A friend.

We have a papa because that's all he can say.

daystardreams · January 2016

I work in a daycare and I see all sorts of crazy names for grandparents...growing up we called all of our grandparents as Grandpa Lastname or Grandma Lastname so the less formal names kind of freak me out. My nieces and nephews call my parents Grandpa (none of them have another Grandpa) though they called him Papa when they were little and Grandma Firstname. They also call their other ones as Grandma Firstname.

I'm not sure about DH's parents as they have no grandkids. I guess we'll let them pick but I can't handle the crazier names...

jenfarm3 · January 2016

My children will call DH's mom and step dad "Memaw" and "Papa David." They will call his dad and step mom "Papa Dan" and "Nana." I'm my mom's only child so I guess we'll find out what she wants to be called when we have our first. Probably just Grandma Molly. On my side of the family it's usually just "Grandma" or "Grandpa" and whatever their name is. My grandma was Grandma Colleen. My grandpa was Grandpa Mac. So, idk. Haha. It's always been super simple in my family.

DH's family is more traditional southern though. It usually ends up being up to the first grandchild as to what they're going to call them (usually the case) or what that grandparent chooses to ask to be called. There's a ruling though, it can't be the same name as another living relative in the family. DH's mom got "Memaw" because DH's great-great-grandmother had passed away before the first grandchild was born and that's what his mom decided to ask to be called. The name "Memaw" had been freed up! Lol. DH's grandpa is called "Pawpaw". His grandmother was called "Nanny." This stuff was all new to me. I'm from the north where I never heard of it being such a... ritual or family tradition. Haha.

PhoebeJune1984 · January 2016

Oma (my mom)
Pappy (my dad)
Papa (husband's dad)
Grandma (husband's mom)
Grandpa (husband's grandpa)

My niece and nephew always referred to their grandparents as Grandma and Grandpa, and their great grandpa as Great-Papa. But when my daughter started talking, she always called her grandma "grandma", her grandpa "papa" and her great grandpa "grandpa". So it is sometimes confusing because we stuck with what she called them, and my SIL stuck with what her and her kids called them. My mom goes by Oma (grandma in Dutch), but my dad isn't Dutch and grew up with calling his grandfather "Pappy", and he doesn't seem like a grandpa or papa....so he got the Pappy title.

Latina211508 · January 2016

Well I call my grandparents from my moms side mommy and poppy. That's what everyone calls them. So my kids call them that as well. But with my parents and my inlaws, our kids just call them grandma/grandpa.

ammnam14 · January 2016

My parents are Nana and Papo
DHs parents are Gamma and Dado

Huskerfanz · January 2016

Grandma and Grandpa
Nana and Papa

CajunSnowWhite89 · January 2016

We call my grandmother honey. I think my parents want to be nana and pop.

My MIL decided she wanted to be youneek when my first niece was born and called herself ChiChi. DH told her it was awful but she argued that it was cute. A few years later she decided she didn't like it anymore and wanted something else but none of the kids would call her anything else so she's stuck with it. It's different, but I just think it's funny at this point, I've grown so used to it.

queenwog · January 2016

Baba and Papa

midge519 · January 2016

My ex's parents are Grammie and PawPaw, my parents are NanNan and PawPaw, SO's parents are Grandma and Grandpa last name.

slfezz · January 2016

We have Mimi, Oma, and Papa

BlueJuice · January 2016

My stepmother-in-law goes by Gigi. For what that's worth. Everyone else just goes by Grandma/Grandpa <firstname>.

groovylocks · January 2016

My parents are Nanna and Papa.
Hubby's parents are Mama and Yeh-yeh (Chinese - names a child would call her father's parents)

Rawa1416 · January 2016

DH's grandparents are all still alive, even his great grandmother, so we have a lot of names between us.

Gran gran and paw paw (deceased now)
Nana and pops
Mimi and pa
Granna and papa
Grandmom and grandpa

KaLikeAWind · January 2016

My ILs are Grandma and Grandpa, my mom is Nana, and we haven't yet worked out what to call my dad.

Merinmac · January 2016

I plan to refer to both sets of grandparents equally as Grandma and Grandpa. They live in different states and have never even met, so there's rarely going to be a need to differentiate.

I'm a Northerner and where I'm from, this whole thing with grandparents choosing ever-wackier nicknames for themselves is just not done. I live in the South now so my in-laws may want to come up with something, but I'm not about to ask. IMO, Grandma and Grandpa are lovely, classic terms for 4 special people and relationships in my LO's life. Just my opinion, though!

ShallowSeas · January 2016

I have no kids yet, but my little nephew calls my parents Grandma and Papaw which is what my sisters and I always called our grandparents.

ktlany · January 2016

We call my mom Grammie and my dad Pops. DH's parents are Gigi and Gpa (pronounced gee-pa).

My nephews call my mom Gramcracker, which came from a mispronunciation that stuck when they were really little. We all love Gramcracker.

jennyshawn0808 · January 2016

My parents are Mamaw & Papaw

IL's are Grandma & Grandpa

We both have living grandparents. They are Grandma/Grandpa first name.

beforeyou · January 2016

DHs mom will be mamaw. My parents think that they want to have something "younger" (their words) than grandma and grandpa. However, my mom said she'd like to be Grammie which to me sounds much older than Grandma. And my dad thinks Grand-dude sounds super great. In all honesty they will probably just end up being grandma and grandpa.

MollyC20 · January 2016

We have:
Papa/mimi
Poppo/Honey
Papaw/GG (great grandparents)
Nana (great grandmother)
Grandad (great grandfather)

Mamabeagle · January 2016

Papou and Yiayia (Greek) my great grandparents
Nanny and Papou my grandparents
Lala and Papa my parents

DH father was Grossdaddy before he passed away (not sure of spelling but this is pronunciation of German for grandfather)
His mother is Grandma Cindy and stepdad is Grandpa Mark

kim1989 · January 2016

Grandma and Grandad. I'm English and my in laws speak Spanish but for some reason they want to be called the English names (MIL says abuela makes her feel old)

Conky3000 · January 2016

Paternal grandparents are Nana and Grandad (great grandmother is Old Nana - this was established by a cousin with a son almost a year older than our kids ).

Maternal grandmother is Grandma (my dad passed away when my kids were just over a month old) but we refer to him has Grandpa.

groovylocks · January 2016

Mamabeagle said:
Papou and Yiayia (Greek) my great grandparents
Nanny and Papou my grandparents
Lala and Papa my parents

DH father was Grossdaddy before he passed away (not sure of spelling but this is pronunciation of German for grandfather)
His mother is Grandma Cindy and stepdad is Grandpa Mark

Yeah I had a Großvater. Or grossvater in Swiss. He was our great grandfather but we just referred to him as Großvater. Grossdaddy is adorable!

[Deleted User] · January 2016

No kids yet but my parents will be Grandma and Grandpa, DHs parents will be Nainai and Yeye (mandarin)

arcanejinx · January 2016

For years my mother has insisted she will never be called grandma. Now that it's happening she has chosen Gigi. My Grandma (her mother) is still alive and we will refer to her as grandma-just easier that way.

My father has decided to be Grandpa. DH mom wants to be Nana and her partner will probably be called Poppa (first grandchild on both sides). DH and his father are just starting to reconnect (I've never met him) and he won't be meeting LO until we are both satisfied that he will be a healthy influence. If that happens we will have to find a name for him.

theGDpaterfamilias · January 2016

For the moment, we have all grandma and grandpas and one "welly" (abuella).

Inlaws are flirting with Nana or Grandma and Papa. But they waffle so much I refuse to use either term. I wish they'd figure it out because they're so confused on their own titles that they start calling ME papa around the kid and I just wince.

4N6s · January 2016

I'm expecting my first and they will call their grandparents grandma and grandpa regardless of what they want to be called. Haha

Mamabeagle · January 2016

@groovylocks DH and his family are actually Swiss, his grandmother Grossi is still around even though his dad is not.

There's a huge Swiss community where we grew up.

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