Naming the Grandparents

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DPs parents are going to be Grandma and Grandpa. my Mum and Dad are Nan and Pop. (we let them choose what they wanted to be called lol) my mum is only 43 and she said that she cant wait to be a grandma.... but doesnt want to be called grandma because it makes her sound old lol good on ya mum)

DPs grandparents have all passed on but my grandparents will be "Great" what we call them (ie. I have Nana Lila... she will be Great Nana Lila)


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My mum is the same!!! She didn't want to be called Nana, Gran or any of the other names. So came up with Nani and then Nonu and alot more in between! But think we have settled on Nana or Nanny - it's just want has kind of stuck, might change though! Mum googled grandparents names and got heaps of sites with alternatives. I do like the Bubble's name though - my mum enjoys her bubbles!

Good luck - who would have thought what to call grandparents was more time consuming than naming your child!!

My mum & her husband are Ouma & Oupa (Afrikaans for gran & grandpa). My dad is Grandpa & his new wife is Denise (we don't know her very well because they live in South Africa & only got together a few months before we emigrated).

DH's mum & dad are Granny & Pa.

My Ouma is Ouma Groot (great-grandmother in afrikaans), & my granny is Great-granny.

I'm the same as Hunnbunny - have Dutch ancestory so my parents will be Oma and Opa and my DHs parents will be Grandma and Grandad.

When I was a kid both sets of grandparents were called Grandma and Grandad and I would differentiate between the two by calling one lot 'Big' cos they were tall, and the others 'little' cos they were short.

Rorylex summed up our side of the family already (mum is Nan to all her grandkids as she became a grandmother at the age of 40 and did NOT want to be grandma R... as thats her ex MIL! And Granny, nana, grandma etc sounded too old... so Nan was her choice)

DS calls his other grandmother Nana Jill (first name, she didnt want to be nana T... as thats her MIL) and his Grandad is just grandad... my father died when I was only 3, so he had no other grandad to get mixed up with.

His godmothers parents are Nana Lyn and Poppa Roy as they were like 2nd parents to me when I split with my ex, and they helped me get back on my feet, and since they dont have grandkids yet, 'adopted' us into their family and became honorary grandparents

DPs mum was going to be Nana Griff and his dad is Poppy Griff (they are about the same age as my grandparents and she waited a LONG time for grandchildren) as Griff has always been his nickname (part of his surname)... he even has it on his licence plate

B has 8 grandparents, so we have
Nana and Poppa
Gran and Grumps
Grandad Bun and Suzi
Grandad and Trish

and then theres the great grandparents which are just great grandma and nanny

we're much the same - but my nephew's grandma is called "granajane" following on tradition - her mum is Granadora... which i think is kinda cute.

we've got a NanaG and a PoppaK as well as the stock standard granma & grandpa (although his name hasn't really been decided yet - he wanted to be Grumpa)

My Mum also didn't want to be Nana or Granny etc as she felt like she was too young... She spent ages trying to come up with an alternative. Her name is Carolyn, so she was thinking Caro, or Linny. In the end she decided on Nana Lin, but Neeky just calls her Nana and now Mum is over it. My Dad is Poppa and the in-laws are Mama (chinese for grandma on dad's side) and Poppa.

Thanks for all the ideas everyone. Well mum is still fussing, I think she wants to be Nanna Lynne, but I'm Carolyn, and my daughter will be Summer Lynne (middle name, not hypenated) and she thinks that will be too confusing for Summer. I think dad just wanted to be Jock, as that's his nickname (from the Edna and Jock cartoons) but Mum disapproved so we are back to the drawing board on that one. Honestly, my husband and I didn't have this much trouble naming our daughter!