What are grandmas called in your family?

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  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
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    Gramma for my husband's mom (when referred to by my kids). Nanna for my mother in the same respect.

    Nanny and Nan for my mother's mother and my father's mother.

    Gran for a friend of the family who was like a grandmother to us.
  • MarthaAnn8186
    MarthaAnn8186 Posts: 84 Member
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    Congratulations!! I am going to be a first time Grandmommy too. :)
  • LaurenOliver
    LaurenOliver Posts: 48
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    Mine grandmothers are meme and memaw. (I live in Texas and was recently told these are mainly used in the south.)
  • TeresaB1979
    TeresaB1979 Posts: 158 Member
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    Dead.:wink:
  • ldonahue74
    ldonahue74 Posts: 53 Member
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    my dad's parents i called "meemo" and "grampa", my mom's parents were "gramma" and "pops"
  • AMCordoba
    AMCordoba Posts: 1
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    I am Nana (naw naw) as was my Mom before me.
  • Nessiechickie
    Nessiechickie Posts: 1,392 Member
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    Oma - German
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member
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    On my dad's side (Samoan) we call Grandma just "Tina" (pronounced Tee-naah) which means "mother" and is a respectful title in the culture (we'd actually call any older woman we meet "Tina" to, again, show respect). If we are not addressing Grandma and are instead speaking to someone about her, we'd say "Le Tina a lo'u Tina" (Leh Tee-naah ah low-oo Tee-naah) which means "The Mother of my Mother" or "Le Tina a lo'u Tama (Taah-maah)" which means "The Mother of My Father".

    There you go...South Pacific linguistic lesson for the day.

    On my mom's side (the Caucasian blend), we just say Gramma.
  • ClammyCupcake
    ClammyCupcake Posts: 49 Member
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    Mommom :)
  • HealthWoke0ish
    HealthWoke0ish Posts: 2,078 Member
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    Dad's side we called her Who-Who (story behind that one)

    Mom's side we called her Mor-Mor. Which is Swedish for maternal grandmother "the mother of one's mother". She was Swedish.

    I'm still waiting for the "Who-Who" story...
  • MyM0wM0w
    MyM0wM0w Posts: 2,008 Member
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    nagyanya or nagymama (Hungarian)
  • Mumbles83
    Mumbles83 Posts: 626 Member
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    old yin oy gran ( my dads mum ) Wee gran ( my dads gran ) ... Ummm just called my mums mum by her name, i remember her moaning at me as a kid for calling her gran so never did again !! ( and her mum was wee granny mac ! )
  • Minerva624
    Minerva624 Posts: 577 Member
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    Nana or abuela
  • laughingdani
    laughingdani Posts: 2,275 Member
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    Granny
    Grandma
    Noni
    Gi Gi
    Gran Gran
  • roolmc
    roolmc Posts: 47
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    Granny or Nana
  • jessimacar
    jessimacar Posts: 291
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    Meemaw and Grumpa for my parents, Grandma and Grandpa for my husband's Mom and Step-Dad, and Grandad for my husband's Dad.
  • MainahGirl
    MainahGirl Posts: 282 Member
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    G-ma
    G-pa
  • stevewynjones
    stevewynjones Posts: 1,143 Member
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    My kids call my mum ."Nain" (Welsh)



    They call my wifes mother by her name....I call her a coffin dodging old *****!
  • Silver_Star
    Silver_Star Posts: 1,351 Member
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    Mom's mother - Didima (Didi - older, Ma - mother)

    Dad's mother - Grandmother ( you can tell which one i was close to ...lol )
  • BeccaBollons
    BeccaBollons Posts: 652 Member
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    We have quite an extensive family due to re-marriage etc, so my daughter made up names for all her nannas.
    There is nanna Del
    Nan
    Great nana
    Grandma
    And then her favourite- Normal nanna
    Normal nanna (my MIL) thinks its hilarious.

    Personally I think my sisters MIL had it right, she thought she was WAY too young to be a grandmother, so insisted on being GLAM-MA! Suits her :)

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