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    • Posts: 243 Member
      :wink: All my 9 grandchildren call me Nan ...
      I called my mothers mother Grandma ...

      But my brother-in-law and his wife ....Asked to be called Grandmother & Grandfather ...Sounds to posh for me ...lol.
    • Posts: 1,599 Member
      I had a Grandmother and a Mammy.
      I don't know what my grandchildren will call me. I hope something original.
    • Posts: 628 Member
      My mom is called Nanny, her mom was grandmama, her mom was called bigmama (she was a very small person not sure where that name came from) Then her dad's mom was mama Dollie, Dollie was her name. On my fathers side it was grandma and pawpaw. I think I like memaw. No grand kids yet. :D Just 3 grand dogs. One of which comes for his nightly visits. Our daughter lives below us.
    • Posts: 145 Member
      Don't have time to read through right now but
      I am called GiGi (pronounced jee jee)
      My mother is Nanny
      My mother-in-law is MeMa
      I know others called Grammy, Gammy, and one of my dearest friends is called Lolly by her grandson (he calls her husband Pop, so they are lolly and pop, so darn cute)
      Tutu is Hawaiian for grandmother
    • Posts: 186 Member
      I had a Grammy and Grandma. My boys have Grammy and Nunny. And Memmay (Meme' I think...my ex's new wife's parents are French).
    • Posts: 63 Member
      I have a Grandma, a Memère (French), and a Mimi (short for Memère, but when I was a kid I couldn't pronounce it and started calling her that)!
    • Posts: 11
      My grandma's were called:
      + Momo
      + Grandma - We called her Grandma in person, but she lived in another state, so when we talked about her, we called her "Grandma who lives in *State*" which I now think is very odd.
      + Grandma *First Name* (was second wife of one grandpa)
      + Granny "First Name" (was second wife of other grandpa)

      My parents called their grandma's:
      + Dear Mama
      + Gran'ma
      + Grandmother

      My mom is called:
      + Nana

      In other families I've heard:
      + Gammy
      + Lama
    • Posts: 437
      My kids call the grandma's on the father's side "Grammy (last name)" and on my side they call her "Nana"
    • Posts: 336
      "...I called one cookies grandma and the other candy grandma."

      I want to read that book now.
    • Posts: 1,585 Member
      Granny & Granda
    • Posts: 1,760 Member
      Nana and Nannie
    • Posts: 91 Member
      "Nonna"
      My family is Sicilian :)
    • Posts: 101 Member
      My parents are G-ma and G-Pa, My husbands mom is GiGi
    • Posts: 744 Member
      I call both of my grandma's--grandma. My mother is called mamaw from my niece and nephews : )
    • Posts: 421 Member
      Grandma Van, Momma B, Oma, Meemaw
    • Posts: 724 Member
      My monther is called
      Bama

      My husband mother is called
      Didi

      I called my grandmother
      Nana
    • Posts: 3,119 Member
      My grandmothers are grandma and nannie. Nannie passed away last year, but she got her name from the first grandchild who tried to say Granny, but it came out Nannie.
    • Posts: 1,850 Member
      MawMaw
      Granny
      Nonna
      Memaw
      Mameire
      Didi
      Gran
      Mimi

      I go by Gram. My partner is Mim. My first grandbaby (boy) will be a year old in January.
    • Posts: 218 Member
      Big Granny and Little Granny. I always thought because Big Granny was about 5'8 whilst Little Granny was about 5'1. My mother says it was cos Big Granny was fat whereas Little Granny wasn't. Charming!
    • Posts: 716 Member
      nana & grandma
    • Posts: 215 Member
      I called my father's mother Granny Barbara and my mother's mom, Lena O_o... her first name.

      My son calls my mother "Nahnee" and I think it's so cute!
    • Posts: 482 Member
      My kids have a Grandma and Grandpa on their Dad's side, and an Opa and Oma on my side... :)
    • Posts: 56 Member
      My grandma that lived far away was just Grandma. My grandma that lived close to us was "Grams". My great grandmas were Grandma *last name* and Grandma-ma.

      My kids have Baba and Nana and the great grandma from their dad's side was Nannie. Their grandpas are Pappy and Grandpa (or Grampy)
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
      I just found out I am going to be a grandma. This baby will have alot of grandmas and great grandmas. I want to go by something else, so it won't be so confusing. What have you heard grandmas called?

      We stick with the word grandma, then add their name to specify which one.
    • Posts: 134
      Mine were Mamaw (last name) on dads side and Grandma on moms side
      my mom is mamaw or maw for some of the kids, hubbys mom was Grammy and his step mom is meme
      I want to be G-mama i think lol
    • Posts: 327 Member
      nanna in Maltese language :)
    • Posts: 272 Member
      Meme and pepe

      Pronounced: Meh-may and Pep-ay

      French!
    • Posts: 259 Member
      I have an Oma in Germany and a Gram in the US (well in heaven now)
    • Posts: 1,108 Member
      GRANNY
    • Posts: 295 Member
      My mom's mom was Grandma Jean (Jean was her nickname/she made it her middle name at 18).
      My dad's mom was Grammy (I think my older cousins started it).
      My mom's (former) stepmom is Nana Wez (everyone else calls her Grandma Wez but tried to get me to call her Nana so I wouldn't be confused. I added the Wez myself lol).

      You can come up with something or let them come up with it.
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