<p>Babcia. Polish grandmother.</p>
<p>No grandkids here. But my best friends have the best names: Gammy and Geezer! It’s a hoot to hear the grandkids calling for Geezer! My MIL, now deceased, was Grandma Nookie, a nickname for Naomi. We love thinking of her by that name.</p>
<p>Wow, I am NOT a fan of the silly names. “Suzu”? To think that she put serious thought into that. Your wife was kind to ignore her.</p>
<p>My in-laws are MawMaw & PawPaw to my kids. Sounds like country-bumpkin land, but that’s what their kids called their parents so I just kept quiet. At least that way my parents could be Grandma/Grandpa without last names.</p>
<p>My maternal grandmother was Nanna and grandfather was Crappaw. He hated that in public, but loved us.</p>
<p>I called my maternal grandfather Poppa. Everyone else was grandma/grandpa.</p>
<p>At an early age, my son started calling my parents Mimi and Poppy and it stuck. Apparently “Mimi” is a fairly common one in the South (there are a couple of other Mimis at my mother’s church). My sister’s kids however just call them grandma and grandpa.</p>
<p>My SIL & BIL decided to be called Meme and Poppy before their first grandchild was born 8 years ago. The same SIL was quit upset when our ex SIL decided she wanted to be Meme also when her first grandchild arrived 5 years later; like my SIL had dibs on the name :)</p>
<p>For my inlaws, I just call them what my kids call them, grandma and grandpa; before that I tried not to call them anything 
Actually, I was told to call them mom and dad, but it took me years to be able to say that; I already had a mom and dad, so it was hard for me to think of them that way. I would hope my children’s future spouses would be comfortable with calling me mom and dad, but if they would rather not, I would go with our first names. Once we have grandchildren, they can use whatever name is chosen for us!</p>
<p>“Babcia. Polish grandmother.”</p>
<p>I have nieces and nephews who had a Babcia. Never knew that was how it was spelled. I assumed it was Bobchi.</p>
<p>When my children were born, we told our parents that they could choose their “grandparent names”<br>
My in-laws chose the names they already had from prior Grandchildren, “Nanny and Poppy” My mother chose “Gigi”, my father G.P., my stepmother “Grandmama,” my stepfather, PeePop!</p>
<p>At our house, Gigi was spelled G.G. and stood for Great-Grandma.</p>
<p>I’ll repeat what I said on the old thread: if I can still hear them and recognize them in the dim future in which my grandchildren might arise, I don’t care what they call me. Not jealous of my friends grandkids yet but I might be in a few more years.</p>
<p>We have Granny and Granda on one side; grandma on the other. Sort of boring. The grands chose them. </p>
<p>As kids we called our only living grandparents “Annie and Grandad” (not sure why). </p>
<p>I quite like a lot of the other more special and cute names and wish they were in our family. I know one boy that calls his grandma “Bruce” (long story behind that one), and hubby called his beloved grandma Boo.</p>
<p>We called one of my grandmothers Tuttut. My older sister started calling her that because when my grandmother would change my sister’s diaper, she’d say, “Tut, tut!” The name stuck and even some of her friends referred to her as “Tut.” She was a wonderful and unique person and deserved a unique grandparent name.</p>
<p>I call my only living grandparents Mama [FirstName] and Papa [FirstName].</p>
<p>Nothing complicated in my family; my son has always referred to his grandparents (he knew three of the four, all except my mother; two are still alive) as Grandma or Grandpa + first name. When I was a child, my paternal grandmother was just “Grandma,” my paternal grandfather (who died when I was a year old) was Grandpa first name, and my mother’s parents were Papa and Mutti to me, because that’s how my mother always referred to them.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly a Mom, but I’d love to have the title of Grandma someday.</p>
<p>more Polish grandparents here: Babcia (sounded like “Bob-cha”, but some of my relatives say “Bah-chee”) and Dzia Dzia (sounds like “Jah-Jah”) and we called our great-grandma Busia (“Boo-shah”). My other grandma, also Polish, was called “Grandma.”</p>
<p>My parents are called Grandma and Grandpa by their 23 grandchildren. When H’s parents were living, we called both sets of grandparents “G & G Last Name”</p>
<p>My mom has always had a gumball machine in her family room which all the grandchildren love. A few of them, when they were learning to say “grandma” actually called my mom “gumball.” My older kids started to call her “Gumball Grandma.” When my m-i-l died, my 4 yo wanted to know “Which grandma died?”–he wanted to make sure that it wasn’t “Gumball Grandma”-- so he could still get his gumballs!</p>
<p>If I have grandchildren, “Grandma” will be fine with me.</p>
<p>Our BFF’s are called Nana and Pop-Pop
My SIL/BIL is called Oma and Opa
If we are ever blessed with grandchildren we will be Grammy and Pappy
I had Grandma and Grandpa</p>
<p>I called my grandparents Nana and Poppop, which morphed over the years to Pippy. I read once that Hallmark sends more Nana cards to the East Coast than to the Midwest, which is consistent with my experience – I don’t know many people out here who use Nana for a grandmother, and I often resort to buying a Grandma card, crossing it out, and writing Nana. </p>
<p>My kids call my parents Grandmom and Granddad, and my husband’s parents Grandma and Grandpa, occasionally adding in first names. Grandmom and Granddad seem younger names to me, and indeed my parents are both younger chronologically and in spirit than my ILs.</p>
<p>My dad’s name to his grandchildren was “O’King”. (and no, he’s not at all Irish). My mom is “Mimi”. My grandmother’s name was “Mama”. My grandfather’s name was “Grandad”.</p>
<p>To D, my parents are “Grandma Ruth and Granddad;” when texting, they are “GR & GD”, or collectively, “the GPs.” When she was learning to talk they were “Grooooth and Grenddent.”</p>
<p>My H called his grandmother Mama. I can’t stand Mama for mother or mom. It just makes me think of some toothless, overworked woman in a slovenly house with more kids than she can handle. I am Mom, not Mama.</p>