Grandparent names

[TallahasseeGrannie]

I want to know what folks call their parents, their inlaws, grandparents, etc. And an explanation for some of the more unique ones! I'll start.

parents: Mother Daddy
pat. grandparents: Bertie Dad
mat. grandparents: Moosie Granddaddy Sam

grandkids call us: G-Ma Papa'


Bertie was short for Beatrice
Moosie came from a child who turned Gramma into Grammoose

[scarlet_owl]

1. I call my parents mom and dad.

My maternal grandparents are Nana and Papa.
My paternal grandmother is Granny.

My paternal great grandmother was NuNu, and my maternal great grandmother is Mamacita.

[nini]

2. I'm nana

well, I will be when he starts talking :-)

[eyesroll]

3. My parents are Mom and Dad.

I always insisted my parents call each other by their first names, though -- it annoyed the daylights out of me when my mom would turn to my dad and say, "Dad, what do you think?" My response was along the lines of "eew, he's not your dad!" I always address my SO by his first name in front of his daughter, although if I'm talking ABOUT him to her I'll refer to him as "your papa" or "your father."

Maternal grandparents were Nana and Papa (Nana was pronounced to rhyme with Papa)
Paternal grandparents are Grammy and Grampy (not sure where those originated)

My parents aren't grandparents yet, but will likely be Grandma Judy and Grandpa Steve.

[purr]

4. My kids call my mom and my grandmother

bubba - dont ask :rofl:

they call the other grandmother(s) grandma

[bleedingheart]

7. bubba is a common grandma name for hunkies here in da 'burgh

[johnnie]

19. We called my grandmother babba

It was a Slovak thing.

[Richardo]

5. My father-in-law says he wants his grandkids to call him 'faux pas'

He's a pretty funny guy.

I only know my paternal grandparents so they were grandma and grandpa. If my mom's parents had been alive we probably would have used the 'grandma ' and grandpa protocol.

I never even heard the meemaw, peepaw, nana stuff until I was an adult. Sounds way too cutesy to my ears.

[Lex]

17. Holy crap, that's funny! "Faux pas"

:rofl:

Your father-in-law *is* a funny guy.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. Forgot to mention

that my kids called my parents:


Mudsie Pop Pop
Oma Opa




The Mudsie came from a derivation of Mother

[HeeBGBz]

8. For various in-laws and assorted Grandparents

We've had:

Local Ozarks country my grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa

When down in Mississippi and married to my second husband with our kids:

His parents were Big Daddy and Big Mama and Grandma Lili (great-grandmother).

Now my grandson calls my ex and his wife Memaw and Peepaw and I'm Granny.

[bleedingheart]

9. here are mine

the kids call...

my mother Ciute (sounds like chutty)...it is slang for grandmother/mother in Lithuanian..Maciute

my husband's mother is Grandma

my husband's stepmother is Nana

The paternal grandfathers are all called Grandpa

(my father is dead so I have no idea what they would have called him...)

[pdx_prog]

10. In the south

it's usually meemaw and peepaw for the mother's parents and mamaw and pawpa for the father's parents.

If you are not really close to them they are Grandmother and Grandfather.

[Lex]

18. I'm in the South & close to my grandparents

and they are grandma and granddaddy, and poppa and granny.


That "pee paw" stuff is just weird sounding to me.

[baldguy]

11. We called my dad's parents Mutti & Poppi

My mom's were Grandma & Grandpa

[TallahasseeGrannie]

12. Is your family German?

My husband called his grandmother Muttie and I think it is short for grossmutter. (sp??)

[baldguy]

13. Yes.

"Mutti" is the equivalent of "mommy". She came from a small town outside of Munich called Berkirchen.

[SOteric]

14. My grandparents were nonna and nonno (or just nonni)

And yes, they're all Italian.

[brook]

15. In our family...

we called both maternal and paternal grandparents "Grandma and Grandpa" with their surname attached. Rather formal...

My kids called my parents Nani & Pop-Pop and their father's : Yaya and Papou.

My grandkids call me GrannieAnnie and my great-grandaughter calls me GiGi. She calls my son-in-law "GrandpaHoney". My daughter's plain Grandma. When we're all together she usually says "You guys". (She's 3).

[YankeyMCC]

16. Mine

My Parents: Ma and Dad

My grandparents were all just gradma and grandpa I would have to distinguish between parternal and maternal via context.

My son has different names for the two sets of grandparents.

My wife's parents are: Noono and Nana
My mother is: gamma
My father was: papa

[Left Is Write]

20. Okay...

I call my parents Mom and Dad. I call my in-laws by their first names, though I put "Mom" on gift labels and cards for my MIL (my FIL is actually my husband's stepfather, so neither of us refers to him as "Dad").

My husband calls my parents by their first names when he's referring to them to someone else, but addresses them as Mom and Dad.

He called his grandparents Grandma and Grandpa.

I called my grandparents Gramma and Grampa.

My kids call their grandparents (on both sides) Gramma and Grampa.

[latebloomer]

21. My son named my mom "Mema"

and now all the younger grandchildren call her that too.

I've since run into quite a few other kids who use that name-- must be some sort of collective unconscious thing.

In our case, as a toddler he was calling her "Mama". I said- "I'M Mama"-- so soon after that he made up the name "Mema."

[spindrifter]

35. One grandmother was Mema,

the other was Grandmother. We had Grandpa, and unfortunately, our other grandfather died before we really got to know him, but apparently I called him Sirtome--Sir-to-me, because that is what he told me to call him.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. For my kids my FIL is Gampy, my dad is Boppy, and my mom was Amma

[miss_american_pie]

23. I have a Pap-Pap

My mom is Grammie Binkie. My dad is Pop-Pop Jeep.

My in-laws are Grammie Lastname and Grandpa Fuzzyface.

[BikeWriter]

24. Funniest I've heard yet, my grand nieces call B.i.l. "Grumpy!"

[Samurai_Writer]

25. My grandparents and parents

I called my parents Mom and Dad.

Paternal grandparents: George and Mildred (died before I was born)
Maternal grandparents: Floyd and Marion (called them Pawpaw and grandma (but my cousins called grandma 'moiner'... we called my great-grandma Nawnee)
My parents: Carl and Geraldine

[Aristus]

26. Here are mine:

My mother's parents are:

Mama - Don't know why, but it's easier to say than "Grandma" all the time.
Gangy - Because my sister couldn't say "Grandfather" when she was little. The name stuck, to my grandfather's undoubted embarrassment. Even Mama calls him that now.

My father's parents were:

Mimi - I've never known why. Her real name was Betty Jane.
Papa - Again, easier to say than "grandfather".

[tinfoilinfor2005]

27. Nonnie and Bukka, because that's how he pronounced

grandma and grandpa when he was little.

Funny story:

Went to Disney with my kids and grandson, but Bukka couldn't go, so my grandson, at that time age three, decided that Bukka needed a hat with mouse ears for a souvenir. We decided to have his name stitched on the hat, and when we gave it to the seamstress, she said, "It is against Disney policy to write nicknames on the hats." My grandson looked heartbroken, and she asked him, "Who is this for?" and we told her that it was for his grandfather, who he calls Bukka. She said, "Oh. Grandparent's names are the only exceptions we make to that rule." And to this day, Bukka's ears sit proudly on his desk at work with the letters plainly stitched on the front.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. Uncle Mommy

When my stepson and his wife were expecting their first baby (now an angel), I explained to my youngest, who was 4, that he was going to be "Uncle Timmy" and his big brother would be "Uncle Ethan". He replied, "And you'll be 'Uncle Mommy'!"

[AmericanDream]

30. Cute! nt

[mykpart]

29. My parents: Mother and Daddy

Paternal grandparents: Pop and Granny
Maternal grandparents: Pop and Marie. Because that was her name, and she didn't want to be called Grandma.
My children call their grandparents Meemaw and Grandpa, and their great-grandmother Meemaw Ree.
When I have grandchildren, I want to be called Granny.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

31. I never met anyone who called their parents

Mother and Daddy... other than my sisters and me!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

32. Mom and Dad

Although Mom preferred "Mama" like you get out of a doll. Go figure.
She called her dad "Daddy XXX." Kind of like out of Tennessee Williams.
She never called my Dad's parents anything but "Mr and Mrs XXX." She claims that was the custom in "those days" but methinks she was never invited to do otherwise.

[Fountain79]

33. My grandparents are Mexican...

Abuelito/Abuelita

[Bzzzz]

34. My grandkids call me...

Mamaw Trixie and my hubby is Papaw.

[ashling]

36. I never knew my grandfathers

as they both died before my parents met.
Daddy's mom was always "mammaw" - which is what Clinton called his grandmother
"
Mom's mom was "gummy" - all the cousins called her that too, so it wasn't just me
- which I suppose is a child's variant of "grand mommy"

[Rowdyboy]

37. My parents were known as "Pop pop" and "Nana"