Nana & Papa on my wife's side.

My parents are remairried
Gigi & Grandpa on my dad's side
Grammy & Gpa on my mom's side

When we were kids, my mom's parents were Mawmaw & Pawpaw, and my dad's parents were Grandma & Grandpa.

i'm Papaw and my wife is Yia Yia (pronounced Ya Ya)

Nana and Rambo for us. I couldn't accept grandpa when I got the news. Rambo just as easy to say but much more bad ass. Been going on for nine years now. The grand kids don't know my first name

Freak ‘em out, tell’em my 1st name is John, John Rambo!

Our handles are, noni & popi.

My kids refer to my wife's parents as "Nana" and "Pops"

My parents are "Grandmom" and "Pop-Pop" to them.

My grandkids call me "Pop Pop". I love it.

I had thought my daughter-in-law came up with it, but she said my first grandson started saying it on his own.

When my family started to populate with Grandkids I was asked what I wanted the little darlings to call me... my reply was "anything they want"

I ended up as PaPa. wife is Granny.
Some, especially the Step Grandkids, use "PaPa Tommy" or "PaPa John" etc to distinguish between their multiple grandparents / great grand parents. They works real well to prevent confusion.

Kinda fun, huh

I had/have a Grandmama and Papa on Dad's side and a Memama on mom's side (grandfather on that side died when I was 1.) I also had great grandparents we called Big Daddy and Big Mama.

My boys have Pop Pop and NayNay (my parents), Papa and Mimi (wife's dad) and Oma and Opa (wife's mom.)

We did not choose any of those as our kids have older cousins.

Growing up it was Grandma and Grandpa for my mom's parents and Grandma Pearl for my dad's mom.

My wife's family has a very different idea of the message behind the names. Grandma and Granddad are the terms that denote kindness and love and getting spoiled and played with, etc. etc. My wife's Granddad was the one that would take you fishing and sneak you desert first and stuff like that.

the term "Grandmother" is a very stern, set-in-her-ways, old woman who is strict on the rules SHE wants to enforce, a very black-and-white ruler of the home, and doesn't tolerate any shit. My wife's Grandmother locked the kids out of the house at 1pm so to keep them from spoiling their dinner eating junk food. She's the one that smacks you upside the head, pulls you by your ear to the sink to wash your mouth out with soap, her way or the highway type woman.

So when My wife's siblings started having kids, they all came to the conclusion that her dad was definitely going to be a Granddad.
My mother in law quickly named herself "gram" because she knew if she didn't, she was going to be a "grandmother," with all that that implies.

The best times are when my father-in-law slips up and tells one of the kids to "go ask your grandmother." She isn't ever amused, but that only furthers that she is truly a grandmother...

My dad is just Grandpa, since that's the easiest differentiation and my mom passed a while back.

My birth-mom and her husband are now Grandma- and Grandpa-Z, on behalf of the different last name starting with Z.

My step granddaughter calls me Poppa, my wife is Nana.

My mothers parents were MaMa and PawPaw. On my dad's side my grandfather died before I was born so my grandmother was Gran. Now that I'm expecting my first grandchild in a few months I await MY new title.

Papaw and Grandmaw for us. And I grin every time I hear it.

Grammy, Pop pop, And Grandma for my daughter

Mrs DF calls me Grampy poo poo. I made her swear not to say that in front of the kids nor their offspring...

My great-grandmother was called Bijie. The story goes that my oldest aunt would always yell out "bye G..." and all of the other kids soon started calling her "bye G" copying their sister but getting the context wrong.

Somehow it just stuck, and she embraced it, changing the spelling to make it her own.

We called her by Bijie until she passed away at 104 years old.

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Originally posted by Gibb:
My great-grandmother was called Bijie. The story goes that my oldest aunt would always yell out "bye G..." and all of the other kids soon started calling her "bye G" copying their sister but getting the context wrong.

Somehow it just stuck, and she embraced it, changing the spelling to make it her own.

We called her by Bijie until she passed away at 104 years old.

Pretty cool

Grand kids and Great Grand kids call my wife and I NaNa and PaPa - Sometimes the 6yo Grand Daughter calls me Pops

Mammaw & Pop

Brings back memories .....

I was lobbying to be called Alphonse by my grandson, but no one else is for it.

I don't know where it will land. The child isn't quite 2 yet, so he hasn't voted yet. I ended up calling my father's father "Doll" because he called us that. My other grandfather was Fa-fa because that is what I called him as a tiny child. I guess I was mispronouncing something else.