What are grandmas called in your family?

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  • LandonRand
    LandonRand Posts: 166
    Like others, just Grandma
  • Cathy1Shields
    Cathy1Shields Posts: 4 Member
    My little granddaughter started calling me BUH BUH at 1 years old! It makes my heart melt to hear her calling me "Bubbie" now. It is Hebrew for grandma!
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    My grandmother is called nana. Great grandmother was called mammy. Great grand father was Bop Bop
  • Karabobarra
    Karabobarra Posts: 782 Member
    my oldest daughter is the first grandchild on her fathers side of the family, when she tried to say Grandma it came out Gammers and it stuck ... she is now Gammers to all her grandkids :)
  • carryingon
    carryingon Posts: 609 Member
    My stepmom tried nan??? Unfortunately my Kids kept calling her Dan:laugh: Now we just call her grandma-it was less confusing. Also had a little boy I nannied for tell his teacher he didn't have a grandma. The went by nicknames that I don't remember:indifferent: Also heard a story of a grandparent making her grandchildren call her Delilah:smile:
  • gogoyubarino
    gogoyubarino Posts: 104 Member
    Maternal grandmother: Nani.
    Paternal Grandmother: Aji.
  • emczech5
    emczech5 Posts: 224 Member
    When I was kid we called both of my grandmas "Grandma." I know, not exciting. We would tag on their name if we were talking about them so our parents knew which grandma we were talking about. Now, that I have a couple of kids we just call my husbands parents Grandma and Grandpa. My parents go by grammy and pappy as per their request. If they didn't request it they would probably just get called grandma and Grandpa too. On of my grandmas has also started calling herself Gigi instead of great grandma around our kids.
  • NaturallyOlivia
    NaturallyOlivia Posts: 496 Member
    I guess my family is the only onebthat uses "granny"?
  • ilovescarymovies
    ilovescarymovies Posts: 202 Member
    MawMaw. and my son calls his dads mom Nana
  • scarlettesong
    scarlettesong Posts: 108 Member
    My nephew calls his great grandma "meemaw" and grandma "tea mamaw" (because she gives him sweet tea.)

    Some cousins also use opa and oma for grandma and grandpa. We just used grandma/grandpa.
  • Be_EmbracE
    Be_EmbracE Posts: 1,472 Member
    Ah Mah for granny ^.^
  • sudiah
    sudiah Posts: 5
    My husband's family (my step-grandkids) call both of us Papuk - they use the same word for both Grandfather and Grandmother - the language is Sasak from the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
  • djdaddyesq
    djdaddyesq Posts: 10
    One of my grandmas is called Grandma. The other we call Achoo.
  • ladymiseryali
    ladymiseryali Posts: 2,555 Member
    My mom's mom is called grandma. My dad's mom is called Mimi. She's french-canadian, so the proper name for grandma is memere(sp?). However, my siblings, cousins and I had trouble saying that and instead called her Mimi and the name stuck.
  • mabelbabel1
    mabelbabel1 Posts: 391 Member
    Grandmother's were called Nanna and Grandfather was called Grumpy
  • OhLibra
    OhLibra Posts: 221 Member
    Mamaw.
  • Rannybanani
    Rannybanani Posts: 98 Member
    I'm Ranny and the other grandma is called Nimmie.

    The first grandchild born on boths sides gave us these names, it's what they were able to say and they stuck.
    Now we can't even imagine being anything else.

    We both have 5 grandkids to date.
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    Nan or Nanny. I had Nanny Granddad (who lived with her husband) and Nanny George (who lived with my uncle George).
  • bgelliott
    bgelliott Posts: 610 Member
    My family is hungarian so we call grandma "mama" and great grandma is "dedi mama". On my husbands side the kids call grandma "nana"
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    Grandma Bernadette, Nana Mary and Granny Ella
  • LinaBo
    LinaBo Posts: 342 Member
    My grandmother and grandfather on my mom's side were "Oma" and "Opa" (Dutch words for grandma/grandpa; they came to Canada from the Netherlands, post-WWII), and my dad's parents were "Grandma" and "Grandpa". My Grandpa was full-blooded Dane, but born in North America, and my dad's family has almost zero connection to their heritage. Grandma was adopted.

    No grandkids for my parents yet, but when I have kids, my mom will be an "Oma", too. When I eventually have grandkids of my own, way, way down the line, I will also be an "Oma".
  • TillyMomma
    TillyMomma Posts: 262
    In my family, it's Mema and in my husband's, it's Mimi
  • indygal76
    indygal76 Posts: 283 Member
    We were boring growing up and just called our Grandma "Grandma". My daughter calls my mom, Nanny and she calls my mother in law, Mimi. And she calls her only living great grandmother, Mamaw. When my Grandma was alive she called her Memaw.
  • bricktowngal
    bricktowngal Posts: 206
    Mommom!
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    I think the only one I'm allowed to say on MFP is "the old bag" (and that's only when we're being nice)--It's not so much that I'm disrespectful, as the woman is horrible. My other grandmother is long dead, she was just "grandma."
  • poesch77
    poesch77 Posts: 1,005 Member
    My grandmas were both called just that...my kids call my mom Nana....my grandmas to my kids were GG (great grandma) and Mimi. I know someone who goes by Monet by her grandkids (I think this is French).
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    My grandmother and grandfather on my mom's side were "Oma" and "Opa" (Dutch words for grandma/grandpa; they came to Canada from the Netherlands, post-WWII), and my dad's parents were "Grandma" and "Grandpa". My Grandpa was full-blooded Dane, but born in North America, and my dad's family has almost zero connection to their heritage. Grandma was adopted.

    No grandkids for my parents yet, but when I have kids, my mom will be an "Oma", too. When I eventually have grandkids of my own, way, way down the line, I will also be an "Oma".

    I like how you assume that the children you don't even have yet will have children of their own. Nothing like assuming things about people who don't even exist yet (and may never).
  • kikokateyy
    kikokateyy Posts: 136 Member
    Nan or nanny :)
  • leomom72
    leomom72 Posts: 1,797 Member
    both of mine were just grandma..to my kids, my mom is grandma janet, and husbands mom is granny..when my time comes, i want to be called graMMy
  • Grankakes
    Grankakes Posts: 128 Member
    all my nieces and nephs call me KK, but i didn't want my grandchildren to call me that. one niece called me Kakes, so we decided on GranKakes. the baby is only 9 months old right now, so we'll see what he converts it to when he starts talking! and his cousin (#2 grandbaby) is on the way!!!

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