What Do You Call Your Grandparents?

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

And where are you from?

 

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11728]

Dead.

[idahorn 26]

Grandma and Charlie.  

[Bash Riprock 1695]

Grandpa and Grandma. I'm from Texas.

[SimonBolivar 10673]

CenTex grandparents were G and G-Mom. Texas Gulf Coast ones were Nana and Pops.

[Guest Lobo]

I still find it odd when grown men refer to their grandparents by their childhood nicknames ('Mee-Maw', etc.) when there aren't any children around.  

It's hard to keep a straight face at a business conference when a man in a suit says, "I'm hoping to visit my Paw-Paw while I'm in town this week."  

 

[Trey3216 15308]

Dad's side-  Grandma and Pap 

Mom's side- Mamaw and Papaw 

 

From Texas  

[Guest]

Dad's side- Grandmother Surname, Grandfather Surname

Mom's side- Grandma Surname, Grandpa Surname

From Texas

But I married into the claptrap that is a Pa-Paw and MeeMaw and MaMaw and Meemi

[ABSR 5274]

26 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Grandpa and Grandma. I'm from Texas.

This.   

 

However, for my kids while both sides are Grandpa for the men,  the women wanted Mimi and Oma. 

[atomheartbevo 88913]

One set, grandma and grandpa, other Oma and Opa, although she becomes Grossmutter when she was upset with us. 

My kids call my mom Mimi for whatever reason. Not sure why it’s gaining in popularity. 

[4th&Five 41111]

Texas side - Gran and PaPaw

South Dakota side - Grandma and Grandpa

[Gene Parmesan 3951]

From Texas.  Nanny and Papa & Mom and Poppy.  Have no idea why or how the Mom came about, but that whole side of the family does it.  It really through my wife for a loop when she was brought into the fold

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

One set, grandma and grandpa, other Oma and Opa, although she becomes Grossmutter when she was upset with us. 

My kids call my mom Mimi for whatever reason. Not sure why it’s gaining in popularity. 

I had a Mimi too but that was her nickname, not her "grandmother name." And both my dad and I called his dad Pops. Mom's side -- more nicknames from their youth: Moe and Susy. Moe got that name during the war -- he got stuck with it in the Army, and it was short for Moron. And he bore it proudly for the next 60 years. Susy had another name but her obstetrician pretty much decided she was a little Susy and that was that. 

[Guest]

Maternal, Texas: Grandad and step grandma's name, but as I got older I called her Grandma.  It's just what felt right.

Paternal, Colorado: Grandma and step grandpa's name.  You didn't call him "Grandpa" or "Grandad," but he did teach me fishin, basic carpentry/ plumbing, and that keeping a Hustler out in the toolchest in the garage was OK.  He loved us grandkids like a motherfucker, but nobody called him anything but his given name.

My kids( Texas) call my mom "Nana" like the end of banana

I am 47 and want my grandkids to call me, "Grandad" like I did mine; but I bet they make that call with or without my consent.  LOL.

Edited May 22, 2018 by slorch

[RDCanecutter 25890]

Maternal: Gramama, Grandaddy.

Paternal: Bigmama. Bigdaddy.

I have been tested. I am whiter than Prince Harry.

I am from Selma, Alabama. Gramama and Grandaddy from same general region. Bigmama and Bigdaddy were from southern Mississippi hills. We have a song about us.

 

Edited May 22, 2018 by RDCanecutter
gotta have a fiddle in the band.

[Yarbr 123]

The ones I knew were Oma and Opa. They were yankees.

[Uncle Nate 2097]

1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Dead.

Me, too.

We must be related.

[Helobious 9408]

Grandma and grandpa, and I'm from Texas. However not one of my 4 grandparents could speak english, and my spanish is not amazing so I always had a hard time communicating with them. 

The "meemaw, pawpaw, nana" shit sounds so weird when spoken by someone over the age of 10. Never understood it. 

[El Diablo 4232]

I called him Grampaw. He called me "Tater Salad".

[RPM 26090]

Granny & Granddad. Texas born & raised.

[South Austin 51564]

Always called them Grandma and Grandpa. I’m from Virginia/North Carolina (Marine Corps brat).

My wife’s family is from East Texas and they do all that dumb shit like Papaw, Memmie, Mamaw, Nana, etc.

[GotThatFire 166]

Depends. If I am talking to someone outside my immediate family, I refer to them as my Grandma and Grandpa. But if I'm talking to immediate family, or to him directly, my grandpa gets the special "Grandy" treatment. (miss ya Grandy)

Austin born & raised

Edited May 22, 2018 by GotThatFire

[Art Vandelay 1705]

1 hour ago, Bash Riprock said:

Grandpa and Grandma. I'm from Texas.

Same, although my parents and grandparents are/were all from Kansas.

Edited May 22, 2018 by Art Vandelay

[CooterBrown 17725]

Growing up in South Texas:
Mom’s side: ma and pa
Dad’s side: mom and Pete

My kids, in Austin, call my parents meemaw and peepaw and my MIL, grandma Kris. They’ve never met my wife’s dad so they don’t call him shit.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8788]

grandma, grandpa- minnesota

[NameAlreadyInUse 5092]

One side - Granny and Granddad

Other side - Mammy and Pawpaw

Grew up on the south plains of west Texas.

When I refer to them to business or casual acquaintances they are called grandparents or grandmother and granddad. 

All but one of them are gone now.

[ajax 2549]

In my parent's native language there's a different word for paternal and maternal grandfather. Same for grandmother. 

It's just overly complicated. 

[workswithseed 2012]

Mom's side: Papaw and Ganny

Dad's side: Nancy and Big Rick

North Texas.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, ajax said:

In my parent's native language there's a different word for paternal and maternal grandfather. Same for grandmother. 

It's just overly complicated. 

Chao Bac

[Vic Mackey 46668]

Grandma and grandpa. From the Dallas area.

Edited May 22, 2018 by Vic Mackey

[nineliveslost 2686]

oma and opa

 

Florida , but grandparents are Dutch

[Zepol87 9024]

Maternal: meemaw and pawpaw

Paternal: Ama and Apa

 

From Dallas

[Celery Man 20568]

Meemaw and Peepaw, family “originally” from Denton and Jack County.

[TonyTexas 10406]

Memaw, Pawpo, Momo. Houston.

[Eastwood 4394]

Poppa and Grammie on mom's side.

Geeses because I butchered whatever it was she was wanting me to call her on my dad's side.

ChaCha for my grandfather because I was an insensitive little prick as a vocalizing toddler and that was the vocalization of what I thought his Parkinson's tremors looked like.

[former alkie 72]

Fort Worth, all 4 deceased, but.....

dads side = Dowie & Papaw

moms side = Grandma & Grandpa

[Trey3216 15308]

5 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Maternal: Gramama, Grandaddy.

Paternal: Bigmama. Bigdaddy.

I have been tested. I am whiter than Prince Harry.

I am from Selma, Alabama. Gramama and Grandaddy from same general region. Bigmama and Bigdaddy were from southern Mississippi hills. We have a song about us.

 

We’s to treat him like like white folks, BigDaddy? 

[kmac30 416]

I called my grandmothers my their first names. I never knew any grandfathers.

[RDCanecutter 25890]

3 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

Paternal: Ama and Apa

That's some old-school Pedro Infante stuff.

[RDCanecutter 25890]

36 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

We’s to treat him like like white folks, BigDaddy? 

"Why do all yo children have dog names?"

[wood 10904]

Born in Florida. Called my maternal GPs there Grandmother & Grandaddy. Grandmother was full Seminole & was not to be fucked with, or you'd hear "Go cut me a switch". Not good if you heard that. Paternal GPs in Tennessee were called Nanny (but spelled Nana ... weird) & Papa.

 All by their choice. 

Edited May 23, 2018 by wood

[markstanco 12425]

Never had a grandpa, died before I was born.

Nana (dad's side)
Gran (moms side)

Both passed, nana 20 years ago and gran 2.

[Kyrie Eleison 9310]

Mamere and Papere...south Jefferson county (Port Neches/Groves).


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[KYHorn 16707]

Haven't seen this one yet, surprisingly. Maternal grandparents were grandmom and granddad. Didn't know my paternal. 

[BigDHornfan 6508]

Maternal were Ma and Grandad.
Paternal were Grandad and Can Can.
I was the first grandchild so everyone followed suit.
Still not sure where Can Can came from. But she liked it.
Miss all of them.

From Dallas.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4959]

Mom's side is Mawmaw and Pawpaw, Dad's side was firstnamemommy and Grandaddy. Parents are Nonnie and Poppa, but my daughter calls me Papa, so I usually refer to my dad as Potato. Wife's parents are Lulu and Aboo (their youngest grandkid called him that when he was little and couldn't say abuelo).

[pearlandhorn 3258]

Didn't really have a relationship with my mom's parents (called my mom's mom Nanny).

My dad's parents - Gangy and Paw Paw.  My cousin (dad's sister's daughter) tried to call my grandmother Grandma but it came out Gangy and it stuck.

My mom is MeeMaw and my dad is Pap Pap for my son.  I'm from TX.

[relapse98 634]

Dad's dad ran away when he was a kid, so never met him.

Dad's mom was Nanny.

Mom's parents were Papaw and Papaw's Nanny. She died when I was 5 so that really only came up when discussing her in the past tense.

 

 

My kids call there grandparents on my side UhUh and MamaUhUh, or if you are my daughter, she has change that to MaUh and Uh. The story is that when my son was little, they had him over for a week and my mom was still working. My dad spend the entire weeking telling my son after he touched something 'Nuhuh' constantly. And so my son just started calling him that.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Dead.

 

This.

 

Maternal: pawpaw (actually not really sure how we spelled it) and grandma.

 

Paternal: Lita and Lito (short for abuelita and abuelito)

 

Oh yeah...

 

I was born and raised in Houston, my mom is from San Antonio and my pops is from Costa Rica (Lita was Brazilian, Lito was Costa Rican).

 

[Sidney Sherman 66]

Dad side: pawpaw, grama

Mom side: Ed, nana

Born on the Island - the little barrier island South of Houston