What do DCs call their grandparents these days?

[Bignorkz]

Baby due next Friday, just looking for some ideas as to what grandmas are called these days? DHs mum is happy with "mammar" (think that's a regional thing - we're from Notts - but my mum doesn't like it, she also says nan or gran makes her sound old!! I just used to call mine Grandma (name)!! Any more ideas??

Nanny and grandad for DHs parents. (She was already known as Nanny, we produced the last grandchildren)

'The other grandad' for my dad. Or sometimes the grandad who brings sweets. Or the fat one

Grandma and grandpa. Could just about tolerate a nana and papa but never ever nan or grandad.

My mum is Gran but my DS is 17 months and still doesn't have many words so it comes out as Nanny - she hates it! My dad is Granda (NI). The PILs are Granny and Granddad.

Pils are Nanny and Grandad
Ps are Grumps and Gigi - chosen by them as DM was only 49 when DD1 was born!

Yaya is greek for nana i think.

Grannie, grandad xx, nanny, grandma xx, nanna xx

They all just worked out their own names somehow and we fell in line!!!

Granny A (my mum's Christian name).
Granny 'Onne (mispronunciation of dh mum's name!)
Grandpa P (dh stepdad name)
Uh-Oh! This is my dad! Dd1 christened him this as everytime he sees her he says "Uh-Oh, here comes trouble!" He looooooves having a special grandad name, as does Granny 'Onne actually. I think the best ones are the onesthe kids themselves make up. It is slightly confusing though as dd2 (2.5) was asked last week who her grandads were and she hadno clue! She talks about other children having Uh-Ohs too!

My parents are nain and taid (pronounced nine and tide) - the north Wales translation of grandma and granddad.

My mum & dad are nana and pops
FIL & his wife are nana & grandad
MIL is nanny

My DDs only have my DM an DF as GP and I hoped they would call them the same names as I called my DM parents Nana and Granddad, yes to the first Nana and Papa (I blame pappa pig grandpa pig/papapig) but it works they also have Granny, my DH's granny who brought him up but is Granny as they talk to her on the phone and we sent photos and they sing songs to her.

Moonpig is great

Are we the only ones to have a Grandfather?

My mum is Ranny (as named by DD3), Grammy (as named by my youngest nephew) and Granny Germaleeeeeee as named by my older three when they were smalls (she lived in Germany until the oldest was about 10). The number of es at the end changes every time it's written.

I called my grandparents Granny and Pa and Granny Jet (had a black Lab called Jet) and Boppa.

When I was little, I had 4 grandparents and 2 great grandmas. My dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa, my mum's were Nanna and Grandad, and then the greatgrandmas were Gran and little Nan (because she was too small to be great Nan ). So I was going to follow this tradition with my DS - MIL was happy for me to choose what to call her, so she is Grandma; but when it came to my own Dad, he just didn't "fit" the Grandad name, so he is Grandpa.
BUT! It seems that Grandpa is quite rare these days, as the number of cards available for Grandpa is really limited - whereas there are plenty of Grandad cards.
Likewise Grandma cards seem to have been largely replaced by Nanna (and Nanny) cards, which were a right bugger to find when I was a child!

I did make a classic faux pas at one school friend's house though - she said something about Nanny being around, and I said "oh I didn't realise your grandmother lived with you" - wasn't her grandmother, was the actual nanny, who was a proper old-fashioned live-in nanny who had never left after the children grew up.

My mother insisted on being called "mam" in some sort of weirdy attempt to assert herself as queen of everything. I have encouraged my DC to call her granny to piss her off.

scrummummy - do we get commission now we've mentioned Moonpig on the thread!!?

My parents have decided to be Nanny and Pop (as that's what they called their grandparents)

MIL is Nain

FIL and SMIL are Taid and Nainy xxxxx (first name)

My grandparents are/were Nanny and Granddad Surname and Nanny and Granddad Other Surname. Only used the surnames to differentiate between them when talking about who we were going to see etc.

DS has a granny (turns 60 in 2012) and grandpa ( is 61) and a grandad (is 65).
He also has a 'papa' (great granddad...in his 90s)

When 'grandpa' was being a bit 'precious' and saying he should be called by his 1st name...we resorted to calling him "gampy firstname' for a while and he soon stopped :D

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the only reason that i mentioned it was that it is one of the few places that you can get stuff tailored to your name needed.

My mother tried to get DD to call her Mum! It has settled though on Gamma and Gaga and Granna for MIL (incorporates her name), FIL is his first name but everyone calls him that Inc. DH so was all they'd heard him referred to as iyswim.

*Gamma = my mother and Gaga = my dad, that is.

my dd1 calls her nana (her choice, not ours) 'mum' sometimes because that's what she hears everyone else calling her

Granny (place name) and Grampy (place name)
Grandad and Grandma (place name)
You could always invent your own name.

mine are called Poppa and Grams by mine and my nephew calls them Poppa and Nanna.

I think its up to the grandparents initially what they want to be called and then sometimes the grandchild comes up with a name themselves.

We decided that my mum would be Grandma and DP's mum would be Nanna but DS had other ideas! He calls them Nanna X and Nanna Y, X and Y being their first names.

Depends where you live and your social class and how eccentric your parents are.

Mine have a Nana and Papa, Nanny and grandad and a Nanny big dog (she has boxers) and papa. Nanny big dog is called nanny big bike by her other grandchildren as they have a big bike there so I think she feels she has moved up in the world now she is a dog.