Different states, what do you call your parents & grandparents?

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Ok folks be nice now lol lol Just kidding! What do you call your parents and grand parents? I thought it would be interesting to see if we live in different states or countries if we have different names for them.I live in Ms and was born in La so here the norm is mama and daddy. We called our grandparents paw paw or pappaw and mammaw or mawmaw. I have heard GPaw are Gmaw for grandparents.
 

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Here we have a mix of what people call their grandparents. I have heard many
unique and interesting titles.

For my grandparents, I was the traditional Grandpa and Grandma :)

for my parents it was, mom and dad :)
 

At age 81 if my parents were still alive I would still call them Mom & Dad. Grandparents would be Grandmother & Granddad. Born & raised in Penna. When they were alive out of deep respect always put Mom & Grandmother 1st.
 
Well, except for my mother, I call them all dead. 😊

Oh, hmm, guess you mean when they were alive. Granddad was granddad. Grandma was grandma. And step grandma was called Helen, which was her name.

It was odd, cause granddad remarried before I was born and Helen should have been just grandma. But, nope, she was Helen. Call me, Helen.

Mother was called mom to her face and a variety of names behind her back; as was dad. Now, I just refer to her as mother. I refer to dad as dead.
 
For me it was Mom & Dad, grandma & grandpa.

Two of my grands say Grammy and Grampy and Grandma & Grandpa. The other grand says Tootsie & Papa, plus however one says Grandmother & Grandfather in Korean (I forget, but it's cute).
Some of my friends are Oma & Opa to their grands, another set is Baba & Poppy. Lots of Nanas in the mix, too.

My grands say Mom and Dad for their parents.
 
Mummy and Poppy. He insisted on being called Poppy, no idea why. Now my sister and I refer to him as Father. My bros, who were not so abused, refer to him as Pop.

Grannie. (No other living grandparents.)

When I lived in West Virginia, grandparents were called Mamá (accent on the second syllable) and Pop Pop.

I thought Oma and Opa were Dutch terms.

A friend's grandchildren call her Gigi.
 
Mum and Dad.. Granny and Granda.. we're Celts... but further to that, in the city where I was raised it has it's own Scottish Dialect so a huge majority called/call their parents.. Mammy or Maw and Da... but my mum and dad wanted us not to speak''slang''.. so we were raised to say Mum and Dad..
 
My mother and MIL both called Mom. My dad died when I was 3 but I called FIL Dad. Never knew my mom's mother or dad. Grandmother's Grandma Park (my mom) husbands mother Grandma Stairs. (so my son knew where we were going.) My husbands Dad was Grandpa. My husband's grandma was known as Grandmother D. She was a very formal woman. In her eyes, we were not married as we were not married in the church. My husband was and is the only grandchild that did not divorce, I think we have it on that one.

I am Grandma, my DIL mother is Boo. Both of us are widowed. My grandson did know his mother's Dad, he was called PePaw.
 
Grandma and grandpa, I called my father daddy. I think I might have called my mother mama, but I am not sure. While my grandparents were actually my kid's great-grandparents they called grandma, grandma. Grandpa died when our first child was about 6 months old.
Grandpa was born in California as my father and I. Grandma was born in Missouri where she met grandpa who married her and took her to California.
 
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I never had a grampa, at least I thought they were both dead, but that's another story. Ma & Dad & Grandma is what we called them.
 
I think grandparents are more likely choose their names based on what they fancy or what they called their own grandparents rather than what state or country they live in.
 
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I think grandparents are more likely choose their names based on what they fancy or what they called their own grandparents rather than what state or country they live in.
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My daughter asked me what her daughter should call me. I said, "Well, my name IS Northern." So she told the kid to call me Gramma.

I also wanted my daughter to call me by my first name. But that didn't work out either.
 
I'm MeeMaw to one great-granddaughter and MeeMom to the other.

The other set that actually belong to the Spousal Equivalent officially call me by my first name twice, like Mary-Mary. That's because it was decreed by another family member that I.WAS.NOT to be called by any form of Grandma including terms like Mimi or Nanna. That's no problem with me whatever they call me, even when they frequently slip and call me Grandma anyway.
 
Very interesting. We have friends out west and they had never heard the term Paw-paw or mam-maw and I was just wondering if what we called our parents and grandparents was regional KWIM?
 

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