We are getting nuttier. I’d only be delighted to become one. They can call me anything.
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This is why I like dogs more than people.
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Grandude…HA!
FWIW, lots of mid Atlantic families use mom-mom (pronounced mum-mum) and pop-pop for grandma/grandpa.
Queen mother and your honor would have been a hard no for us ; )
My parents were both immigrants so we used the native language words for the grands and we continued that for our D. If I’m ever fortunate enough to be a grandparent, I’ll likely use what my daughter called my mom and grandmother. Very good memories associated with the title “Nonna” 
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I grew up calling my grandparents grandma & grandpa. But I did have a number of friends who had different names, mostly due to kids not being able to pronounce grandma & grandpa. I never cared what anyone called their grandparents, but I had NO interest in asking my kids to adopt the name my nephew (and subsequently, his parents) called my MIL. Fortunately, my kids wanted to call her grandma. Some names are cute, but some are ridiculous … especially if it’s a name “engineered” by the grandparent.
But people are strange, and it’s kind of a “whatever” for me.
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It’s mostly a whatever for me. But really, Queen? Um no. And I’d rather not be called nana. My MIL is called that, and it’s fine. But we called my great-grandparents nana, so it would just make me feel extra old. But I probably wouldn’t mind in reality.
I kind of like the German Oma and Opa myself. But see me just being grandma
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We became grandparents within the last year. When my S and DIL asked us what we wanted to be called, I figured the baby would probably call us whatever she wanted/could say!
I was surprised that among the four grandparents (first time for all) I am the only one who picked grandma (no grandpa’s). My H was really opposed to grandpa. He thought it sounded too old. We are quite a bit older than both sets of our parents were when they became grandparents!
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We are grandma and grandpa and happy about it but when our grandson began to talk he called me Abby (we don’t know why) and Boppa. I liked both of those but he gradually dropped them. It made me a little sad.
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What does your H want to be called?
Oma and Opa sound too much like ma and pa. In some culture s, Oma is ma.
GD had really sweet names for us at one time, but she transitioned into grandma and grandpa when she could speak more clearly. I also felt a little sad, but she was so proud of herself for being able to say grandma and grandpa.
Her other grandparents are middle eastern, and in their Arabic dialect, grandma and grandpa vary only by the last letter. SIL’s mom chose to use a different Arabic name for grandma to avoid confusion. GD was so excited when she found out that another little girl in daycare called her grandparents the same names.
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My mom’s name is Dolores. Our son just started calling her “gramma 'Lorus” when he could talk. She loved that, and he calls her that to this day. Because my dad always had candy in his pocket for our son (
), he called him “candy grandpa” to distinguish from DH’s parents who were just grandma and grandpa and with whom he had almost no relationship. I’ve told him many times he better never make me a grandma. Ha.
I am Mimi and H is Grandpa (by default, he didn’t really choose but we refer to him that way).
My paternal grandparents were Italian, but they were never “Nonna” and “Nonno”, always Grandma and Grandpa.
H goes by Papa.
I’m happy to be a “nana” 
Queen?! God save the queen - that is a hard no. 
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Whatever you choose, please don’t change your mind a number of years in. My kids called their grandmother “Grandmommy”. When they were 10 and 7, she decided she would rather be nana. My kids just didn’t make the switch.
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In our families the oldest grandchild names them. I named my mom’s parents (grandma/pop-pop). My mom was mama to the grandkids (our oldest named her).
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My boys call my wife’s dad Old Man. LOL!
My stepdaughter asked me what I wanted to be called when she adopted her daughter. Both sets of grandparents were divorced, so the poor kid was going to have lots of grandparents. SD had a friend who referred to her grandmother by her initials. So I’m JJ–those aren’t my initials, but it worked out fine.
My daughter suggested Grandma JJ. This GD tried it for a bit, but she now calls me Baba JJ. Her other grandmother is Russian and the Russian word for grandmother is Baba (also the term for grandmother in other Slavic languages). So, I’m Baba JJ and her other grandmother is Baba Milla.
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Interesting, I grew up in and have spent the majority of my life in the mid-Atlantic and have never heard “mom-mom/mum-mum” or if I have, it’s been rare enough that I wouldn’t consider it popular. I’ve heard “pop-pop” but again, not often. Maybe it’s just certain areas of the mid-Atlantic?
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Mid-atlantic boomer here, who called our grandmarents Mummum and Poppop.
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Pennsylvania area for my H’s family.