What are grandmas called in your family?

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  • ashleyoh33
    ashleyoh33 Posts: 85 Member
    A lot of times we just add their name to the end of Grandma. I have a Grandma Hall, Grandma Sampson, and Grandma Marilyn. I also had a "little grandma" because she was only 4'10". My mom is know as "meme" to her grandchildren.
  • MacSkillz
    MacSkillz Posts: 417 Member
    On my mom's side, it's Mémère (pronounced Mem-a) b/c she is French-Canadian.
    My dad's side is just Grandma.

    For my husband, he calls one Nana and the other was Grandma.
  • Crying_In_Color
    Crying_In_Color Posts: 246 Member
    That depends. My mother is called Grandma. His mother is called "that *kitten*".
  • trhjrh06
    trhjrh06 Posts: 2,272 Member
    My daughter calls my Mom Grandma and my Mother-In-Law Nana.
  • snoopytwins
    snoopytwins Posts: 1,759 Member
    My mom is Meme and the ex's mom is Nana.
  • cecyvaquero
    cecyvaquero Posts: 154 Member
    Abuelita
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Oma.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    My mom's mom - Nana.
    My mom's stepmom - Grandma.
    My Grandma's mom - GG.
    My Grandpa's mom - Grang-grandma or Grandma Mary.

    My dad's Mom - Crazy b*tch. (said she going out for milk and abandoned my dad & his siblings.) She's got issues, I think I've met her once but barely remember it.
    My dad's dad - He died when I was a baby.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    Nana
    Grammy
    GiGi
    Grandmary - Her name is Mary
  • NostalgicMuse
    NostalgicMuse Posts: 340 Member
    Bumma, Great, Grandma, Gramma, Nona, Nonie, Gram, Oma, MeMa
    we also do the Grandma {firstname} or Grandma {lastname}
    it's also acceptable to put "Great" in front of Grandma, but we don't find it necessary to add it in front of the other nick names.
  • AddieOverhaul
    AddieOverhaul Posts: 734 Member
    One is Nana, the other Grandma. For some strange reason we called my grandpa Gump (I miss him).
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member
    Ouma (Afrikaans for Grandma, pronounced Oh-ma)
  • Shannon2714
    Shannon2714 Posts: 843 Member
    Nonna
    Gram
    Grammy
    Grandma
    MawMaw
  • HappyNinjaStar
    HappyNinjaStar Posts: 353 Member
    Gogo (my grandmother) - it was her name given by her grandkids and stuck through great grand kids
    Grandma - My mother to my son, and my husband's grandmother to him
    Grammie - my husband's grandmother to him, my husband's mother to my son
    Meme - my husband's grandmother to my son
    Grandma <insert name first or last> - typical handling of great grandparents that aren't seen very often.
  • TheCaren
    TheCaren Posts: 894 Member
    Grammie
  • I became a grandmother at 41 and felt too old to be a granny so I am a GRAMMY. My sister carried that on when she became a grandmother too. I have a friend whose children refer to their grandmothers as Nana and Nona respectively.
  • saracatherine89
    saracatherine89 Posts: 291 Member
    I call my grandma "Oma". She is Croatian, but I am pretty sure that is a Dutch/German thing. My Opa was German so that makes sense :)
  • Crazy4Healthy
    Crazy4Healthy Posts: 626 Member
    I go by Oma (German) and my husband is Opa. :smile:
  • My grandma is Mimi!
  • RikanSoulja
    RikanSoulja Posts: 463 Member
    Abuela but I'm Puerto Rican and that is just grandma in spanish
  • cheerforsteelers
    cheerforsteelers Posts: 686 Member
    Babushka - Russian. Grandma passed away so my mom always says when she becomes a grandma she wants to be called GG so it's short for Gorgeous Grandma! lol.
  • BalenciaLynn
    BalenciaLynn Posts: 411 Member
    i call mine Gma :)
  • newhabit
    newhabit Posts: 426 Member
    Nana
    Geema
  • concavity
    concavity Posts: 143 Member
    Abuela
    I only have one and I'm the only grandchild so its usually abuela or grammy, When I was a kid it used to be Graham cracker
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    I called my grandmother on my moms side nana (Irish), and on my dads side grammy(Italian)
  • Ivian_
    Ivian_ Posts: 276 Member
    My mom's mom I call, "abue" short for abuela because when I was little I'd leave off the "la" part :laugh: Her nickname though, for everyone else is Koki.

    My dad's mom who passed away I'd call "mima" or abuela. And my dad's dad, is "pipo".
  • Luvmesumkenny
    Luvmesumkenny Posts: 779 Member
    My kids call their Grandma

    MA or NANA :heart:
  • misskerouac
    misskerouac Posts: 2,242 Member
    Oma
  • Pixi_Rex
    Pixi_Rex Posts: 1,676 Member
    I had a baba - she was my dad's grandma so my great gradma.
    I had a grandma - my dads mom.
    I have my gramma - my moms mom
    My moms grandma was just great grandma


    To my niece
    my mom is a mama
    and my gramma is an abba
  • Growing up I had two "Grammy's". Paternal distinquished by adding my grandfather's name. Maternal distinquished by adding my uncle's name. So "PopPop's Grammy" and "Trevor's Grammy". My maternal grandparents were divorced, and my uncle was still living at home with my grandmother, hence "Trevor's Grammy".

    My nieces call my mom "La La". Dad is "Poppy". My mom's name is Linda, but one of my cousins couldn't pronounce Linda when they were little, so she became Aunt La La. Mom had a really hard time becoming a "grandmother", so I suggested she just drop the "Aunt" part and be "La La", because she'd already been that for years.

    Other grandmothers in the family are "Bella" and "Granny D".