What are grandmas called in your family?

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  • JustANumber85
    JustANumber85 Posts: 644 Member
    for me:
    Grandma with the grey hair
    Grandma with the white hair
    Grandma
    MawMaw

    for my children:
    Nana
    GiGi
  • MaryRegs
    MaryRegs Posts: 272 Member
    my family-YiaYia (Greek)
    hubby-Granny
  • dawndw
    dawndw Posts: 203
    Nana
  • BeeRobin
    BeeRobin Posts: 160 Member
    I'm called Gangi. My mom (the great grandmom) is called Mummut.

    Gangi is from the best TV show ever...Arrested Development. The Grandmother (Gangi) was a boozey lady who was self-absorbed, plastic surgery addicted...and just awful. That's me!
  • denezy
    denezy Posts: 573 Member
    We are a very diverse family.

    Anishinaabe: Kookum
    Cree: Nookum
    English: Grandma
    Icelandic: Amma

    My neice also has a great grandmother that she calls Nana.
    My father is her Mooshom. My step-father is her Afi.

    She actually doesn't have any that she calls Grandpa. Weird that I just realized that?
  • bellydancer124
    bellydancer124 Posts: 248
    My daughter calls my mother "Grammie," and she calls her father's mother and her stepmother's mother "Grammie [first name]." She calls my bf's mother "Bammy," because that's what her other grandchildren have always called her.

    I called both of my grandmothers "Grandma" and my great-grandmother was referred to as "Nana." My great-grandmother was from Italy and didn't speak much English, so that's why she got the Italian version. We weren't very creative. :tongue:
  • Chelsrf
    Chelsrf Posts: 194 Member
    I always called all of my grandparents grandma or grandpa.

    However to my daughter:
    My mom is Nana
    Her dad's mom is Grammy
    My dad's mom is Grandma
    My mom's mom is Mom Mom (this is what she started calling her on her own as a toddler, we now all call her this)
    Her Step-grandma is Nana
    Her dad's grandma is Mamaw

    Her half-sister calls her grandma (Yaya)
  • Sweetsugar0424
    Sweetsugar0424 Posts: 451 Member
    Ours are just Grandma and then their first name to differentiate as my mom and step mom have the same last name, but my nephew calls my mom G-momma as she's pretty young for a Grandma.
  • farfoorah
    farfoorah Posts: 168
    Siti, and Seedi.
  • justal313
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    My paternal grandmother was Granny, my maternal grandmother was Noni. My mother is Noni, my mother-in-law is mam-mam.

    Not that you asked but my Paternal Grandfather was Papa, my Dad is Pappa Al and my father-in-law is Pappy.

    My paternal grandfather passed before my Mother or Aunt had children.
  • Mel1509
    Mel1509 Posts: 166 Member
    My family Grandma.. shocking! and Nanny for my husbands it is Nonna
  • KCoolBeanz
    KCoolBeanz Posts: 813 Member
    Baba! (we're Ukies) :-)
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    Old one.

    ...

    I'm lying. Two are called Grandma.
    One is Oma.
    One is Yoda (this is what I call her. She has no idea what it means but she doesn't mind).

    I HAD four grandmas. Yay for divorced and remarried parents.
  • jeepgirl4ever
    jeepgirl4ever Posts: 17
    Thanks for all the responses, and quite a few laughs!!
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    G-ma and Grandma...
  • NocturnalGirl
    NocturnalGirl Posts: 1,762
    Nanu or Nani - Mother's mother

    Dadu or Dadi - Father's mother

    My parents are Bengali
  • wham55
    wham55 Posts: 44
    I call my mom's mom noni and my dads mom mimi haha
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Talking to my mother... "Your mother".
    Talking to anyone else, including aforementioned grandmother... "Nan".
    In my head... "PITA".
  • algebravoodoo
    algebravoodoo Posts: 776 Member
    Baba or Omi (Oma)
  • dawnerika
    dawnerika Posts: 22 Member
    Moms side used the French names - Memere & Pepere (pronounced Memmay and Peppay) and Dads side was Gramma and Grandpa...now that I am one, I am Memere to continue that tradition :)

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