Your grandma name

My mom is Grandma and my dad was Bumpa and that’s because the boys started calling him that.

Other side is Grandma Barb and Grandpa Bruce. My MIL tried changing it to grams but by the time my kids rolled around, she has been called Grandma Barb for over 20 years. So, I think that started with her first couple grandchildren trying to distinguish between grandmas who were pretty young at the time.

My dd was my parents’ first grandchild. My dad went with polish grandfather but my mom said it made her think of her grandmother and went with Grammy.

My brother changed it when he had a child four years later!! My mother tried to get them to use the name she chose but they refused. God bless my mother that it wasn’t a battle worth losing her son’s family over but she tells me how it hurts her to this day, 17 yrs later. It still plucks my nerves but wasn’t my battle to fight either.

Congratulations - babies are such a blessing. That's wonderful!

My grandparents were Grandma and Pop-Pop. My mom was Granny (her choice) and her husband was Grand-dad. My dad was Pa (my oldest dd couldn't say Grandpa and shortened it to Pa and it stuck) and his wife just goes by her first name.

My husband's grandparents were Grandma S. and Grandma P. One was Sicilian (Grandma S. stood for Grandma Spaghetti) and one was Irish (Grandma P stood for Grandma Potatoes.) My mil was Nana.

So, eventually I'd like something different from all of them - probably DeeDee, something like that. I have quite a while to wait though....

I'm just Grandma.

We know a young couple who have certain names for their kids grandparents that are different for each side and honestly it's so confusing to remember what all the grandparents are called as the kids are too young to understand what the traditional Granda and Grandpa names mean.

Congrats! You will be an awesome grandparent (whichever title you choose).

Everyone in my family is just Grandma and Grandpa. I had no idea it was so common to have other names. I don't hear that very often. I'm not into nicknames or cutesy names, so will be proud to be a grandma when the time comes.

I choose Nana.  My mom, her mom and her mom were all Nana as well and I like it. 

But Joey has many grandmothers so I am specifically Nana Alana, which I quite like (along with my husband Grampa Joe, his namesake).

As for being an unexpected grandparents...congrats!  It will all work out.  We were very unexpected grandparents at 43 and my reaction was less than stellar.  But Joey is a sweetie and we have him over now every 6th to 8th weekend.

I wanted to be Grandma but my daughter in law didn’t like it so google grandma in Foreign language and choose Baba from Babouchka my husband didn’t bulge he is grandpa but we both grew up in Switzerland where we don’t give cute names to grandparents.

congratulations jeremysgirl - how exciting!

no grandchildren here but I think would like to be Grammy or Gramma when/if the time comes.

my grandparents were Granny/Grandpa and Gran/Gramps

my mum choose Granny when my oldest was born. My MIL was Grammy long before I had kids (DH was 18m when his first nephew was born) and her mum was Grandmom to several generations. My SILs choose Nana, Mimi, and Nanny.

Me too!  


Congrats to all of you.  How exciting!

My kids got a pup and they tried pulling the name that my husband's mom went by.  I shot that down right away!  It was triggering for me.  

My sons used to call me Nanner for years when they were in elementary school and junior high.  I loved it.  My son's wife calls me that usually too.  Wouldn't mind if that stuck.

Congratulations! I think I would be surprised if you weren't a Gigi, it suits you perfectly!

I come from a long line of Nanas on my maternal side. My own Nana died when I was 14. In my 30s my mom remarried and her husband's mother was still alive. His kids called her Nana, and their kids called her NanaGrand. My son called her NanaMax. She loved it and insisted that the people at the assisted living place call her that. She died on Christmas just before covid. She was 103. She had my stepdad at 16, was married before she got pregnant.

I plan on being Nana, but if the littles pick something else, I'm good with it. My Dh keeps saying he wants to be Granny, he's weird. Ds swears he will have his kids calling him Grumpers.

Ds21 had a nanny for several years and he calls her MarMar, which is what we picked, He calls her husband Pappy.
Ds calls all of his friends grandparents by whatever his friends call them, and any parents that go by anything other than common versions of mom and dad are called by that name, and otherwise their first name. He has one friend who calls his dad Baba, and my Ds calls him that, and his mom is Linda. Another friend calls his mom Mimi and Ds does too. Turns out his whole friend group is this way. Well, except for me. Several of his friends go way back to preschool, and they used to call me Mrs. Henry's Mom, and that is what all of my kids friends call me to this day. 😜 They are 21 years old.

My grandparents wanted to be Grandpop and Nana. My brother (the first grandchild) kept calling our grandfather PopPop. So it stuck. As we got older it morphed into Pops. Now my brother has chosen his grandfather name to be PopPop!

My grandparents were always just Grandma and Grandpa last name.

My parents were known as Papa and Bama by dd and dn. Dear nephew had problems pronouncing Grandma and it came out Bama.  DD soon started using that too.  I think my dad just referred to himself as papa so the kids used that.  

Dh's parents were not much involved with dd and/or died young, they were just known as Grandma and Grandpa last name.

No grandchildren here and with just one kid who has health issues and doesn't want kids/think she can handle being a parent, we probably won't have any.  It is what it is.  I hope you enjoy being a grandma!

The GiGi's I know are great grandmothers. My grandmothers were all grandma