I had a “Nana”! She was one of my great aunts, I think! She was very nice, and made soup for us. Her elderly neighbors also gave me a ton of candy once. I miss her.
Nana is what my late Grandmother was called. Everyone in the street called her that. My children called her "Grand-Nan". She was "Nana" to 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grand children and I've lost count of how many great great grandchildren. My MIL is Nanny to her grandchildren and "Ganny" to her great grands. My oldest great nephew came up with that one.
@@jfm14 That's where you're wrong kid. By the time another grandchild comes the nickname would have already been ingrained in everyone and no one usually bothers to change it again
My nephews call me Mimi. Apparently I'm not the only one. I've met 5 aunt friends that are all named Amy and their nieces and nephews call them Mimi too!
Right! (Thanks for reminding everyone--I'm a descendant of: McThomas of the Meeting Rock, & McQuilling of Dunluce Castle of Ulster, married to descendant of: McEwen). Bless Ya.
@@raisingolives77 my husband's people call their grandpas: "Gramps", but my Scottish & N Irelanders immigrated to America before the potato famine (before: 1848-1851), & landed in the Appalachian Mountains, & intermarried Native American Tribal peoples: our clans call our grandfathers: "Paw-paw", & "Grandpa". (Fun fact: there is a Paw-paw fruit that grows at the foothills of the Appalachias: in N Georgia: it tastes best, right when ripened & picked--it doesn't: "save" well.) God Bless Everyone!
I called my grandmother Mimi. Her first five grandkids just called her grandma. I don’t know why exactly, but us last ten grandkids always called her Mimi.
Me, my siblings, and my cousins call my grandma " Gam-maw". Her mother was "Me-maw", and HER mother was granny. My grandma used to call her great-grandfather "papa-dad".
My first 4 just called me Gramma. But when the 5th started talking my son asked if it would be a problem if she called me Nana (the ah sound) because she was having a hard time saying any other choices. She's 8 now & I really don't remember when it changed to gramma. It's really the Love u hear in whatever they call u! 💗💕
@@back136 yep. She had five kids, and that comes out to a lot of grandkids! I’m one of four, there’s three groups of three, and then my favorite aunt has 2. Our ages range from early 30s to 8.
My friend's southern grandmother had a typical grandmother name, until her eldest granddaughter started calling her "Honey" as a toddler. She asked her "Why are you calling me Honey?" My friend replied "Well, Grampa calls you Honey." Her grandmother was enchanted, and has been Honey ever since to all grandchildren. Even I call her Honey!
That reminds me of how I called my grandma “mom” because my parents and I lived with her when I was young and that’s what my mom called her, so to differentiate my mom and grandma I started calling her grandma mom! I love how kids find names for things
That’s exactly what happened to me and my Grandma. One day she wasn’t listening to me calling to her and since she always responded to my Grandpa when he said “Honey”, I called her that. She was stunned and it’s a funny memory she tells now.
@@marieremelie6716 I can relate cus I call my grandparents nanay in Filipino that means mother and tatay meaning father but since I always did it it stuck on
My 2yr daughter called my mom, “Gamma”. When she met my grandmother, she was really confused. She understood how she fit into the picture but my calling her, “Grandma” was just too much. She pointed to my mother and said, “Gamma!” Then she pointed to my grandmother and said, “Gamma Gamma!” From then on, even though we were all adults by then (23 of us) and all of our children (I honestly do not know how many) all called my grandmother. “Gamma Gamma”. My daughter’s 33 now; we still refer to my grandmother the same way.
Too funny...I had actually picked that when my G daughter was born...her name is Lilah...but I found that I was calling her my Lolly or my lollipop. So I changed it to Nonnie and Poppy....that's stuck!
My Grammy passed away three years ago, actually it will officially be three years next week! She was the sweetest person. She put others before herself. Her family was her whole world. I am so sorry for your loss. I know it’s hard to loose such a big and impactful personality. You are so lucky to have a Grammy, and I am so glad this video made you smile!!❤️
Lauren , very sorry to hear about your loss. I'm sure she was a very fabulous and wonderful Grammy! Sending love healing and light for you and your family!
I call my grandma “lita” as a shortened version of abuelita. When I was young I couldn’t pronounce the whole word, so I just said lita, now my whole family calls her that.
Lol my son did the same thing couldn’t pronounce Abuelita so it came out Vita. My mom liked it said he had to call her that and for 30 years that was not just her grandmother name but become her name. My brother, family and friends all called her Vita. I can’t remember the last time I called her mami it was always Vita and will be forever🙏🏻
Oh lol I called my late grandmother that also!! Her name was Gladys so I would call her Lita Liadis since I couldn't pronounce abuelita Gladys!! I still call her that whenever I call about her.
Haha! Same thing with my little sister. When she was around 2 she couldn't pronounce my brother's name 'Daniel' (we never use 'Dan' or 'Danny') and then one day she just wouldn't stop calling him 'Bobby'. No idea why variants of 'Bob' are a go-to name for kids.
My Granny was my world. I used to tell my husband I love her first and him second. She passed away 10 years ago and I miss her all the time, especially now that I’m a Mama myself!
i guess i couldn't pronounce "grandma" or "me-ma" when i was younger, so one of my grandmas is "Ema", so my grandpa is "Epa". I also have a Nana and Poppy, which just goes together i guess 🤷♀️ My Nana chose those names for them. My great grandma decided she wasn't having any nonsense- so we call her Grandmother, and her husband is Grandad. I have had a Me-ma and Peh-pa, along with a Mimi and Pa-pa for great grandparents, but they are all gone now 😔 Still, i am very lucky to have known them, and I still have two great-grandparents right now
I'm suddenly reminded of an iconic quote from Grampa (during the 2007 Simpson's movie): Beware, BEWARE! Time is short, Eeeepa, Eeeepa, EEEEEPA! Believe me! BELIEVE MEEEEEEE!
And hopefully the kid becomes multi lingual. Positive vibes from New Hampshire,remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis
Yes, my daughters had "grandma" and "yiayia." The great grandma was called "Grandma Rolena" although for some strange reason I decided to call my grandma Rolena, "Nonnie" when I was a kid and it stuck.
I started out being a “Grammy”, because that’s what we encouraged my grandson to call me... but then my granddaughter came along and decided that I am a “Mimi”, so that’s what I’ve been to everyone ever since!🙏❤️
That sounds like what happened to my brother and I! I started out calling our grandmother “Grammy” but when he came along 4 years later he had a hard time with the pronunciation so we both called her “Mimi” instead. Both are top notch names!
Unci is the Lakota word for “mother’s mom” and that’s me! Right now my grandson just says random sounds so I guess I have to wait to see what he calls me.
my mother taught my kids to call her Queen Mother and that is what they actually call her. The looks i get in public when they call for her are hilarious
You’ll be called whatever the first grandkid decides to call you. Period. You don’t always get a choice. My two sisters and I all wanted to be Nana. The oldest one is Grammy, the middle one is Nee and I’m Granna. My granddaughters were 8 & 10 when they, and their dad, came into our lives. The first time I met them, the K year old says: So, what are we gonna call you? Me: How about Nana? K: Nah. I don’t like it. Me: Well then, come up with something else. K: Okay, I will. Fifteen minutes later she comes back. K: I’ve got it! Me: Lay it on me. K: We’re gonna call you Granna cause it’s part Grandma and part Nana so it’s better! And I’ve been Granna ever since. You can’t argue with 8-year old logic!. She’s now almost 18 and a senior in high school. Her sister is 19 and a freshman in college. All the grandkids who’ve come after have fallen in line and call me Granna.
I agree - whatever the first grandchild calls you is the one that stays. Some women come up with alternate names because the don't want people to think they are old. Ha! Look in the mirror, sister, you ain't foolin' nobody!
Agreed. My mom was fine with "grandma," but my first child, the first grandbaby, pronounced it as "Monk" as a baby. 10 years later and my mom is still proudly known as Monk. You don't find that one on a keychain. 😂
My older cousin, for whatever reason, started calling our grandmother June’s mom (after my mom’s name June, her favorite aunt. In time we all (18 of us) came to call her Juniemom. She lived to 94. My mom, June, just celebrated her 100th birthday on June 29, 2020.
My 18 yr old grandson Austin sent me this from you tube and it just made me smile!! I’m Grammie. I’m also a nurse midwife and delivered 2 of my 6 g-kids. Love love being a Grammie ❤️♥️
@@perniciouspete4986 "Boompa" here, my granddaughter just turned 14, and she lets her peers know that she loves her dad, Boompa and her "Omi" (german for grandma) and instead of getting embarrassed by the comments they make she feels bad for them for not having as close and loving relationships as she has with us,
And house rules are listed in The Matriarch Manifesto... My Big Momma (what we called my Dad's mother) her manifesto was no matter what even if you had been indoors all day you were taking a bath before you slept in the guest bedroom!
Whenever my oldest grandson came over I would hold out my arms and yell, Babe, I'm so glad your here! Now on my 6th grandchild I'm the one who is called Babe by all of them. I tried explaining to them once that I wasn't named Babe but that went no where...lol.
True, my Great Aunt was called Mawmaw by my cousins (she's my great aunt but their grandmother) so whenever there was a family party I always heard them say "Mawmaw"
The ending tugs at my heartstrings every time and never fails to make me tear up. When I was a kid, I had a hard time pronouncing the Y sound. My dad is Greek, and the Greek word for Grandmother is Yiayia. When I was learning how to pronounce Yiayia, it always came out as Lala. It just stuck, all these years later, even at my current age of 31. My Lala died in 2008 and I miss her so much. She was my best friend and the one person I could turn to for literally everything. From a casual conversation, to serious advice. My Lala was the one I always went to. As an adoptee, I am fortunate to have another set of grandparents. I call my other adoptive grandmother "Gramma", one biological grandmother "Nana", and the other biological grandmother "Yiayia" (Both my adoptive and biological fathers are Greek). But it will always be my Lala which makes this video tug at my heartstrings.
@davidgreg6907 I refuse to disclose that information on the internet. Personal reasons. Also, please respect if someone is not religious as not everyone is.
I've always just called my grandma "grandma", although when I was younger I always spelled it "Grama", and even now my grandma still signs all her emails as "Grama Mattie" ♥️
My son named my mother Yaya, because when he was a baby, he would coo and talk and she would always say "yeah yeah yeah... what are you talkin about"❤ Yaya is actually is Greek for Grandma. 😆
I call my Spanish grandma Yaya as well, but in my case it’s because it’s a common way to refer to your grandma in Spain. I also call my German grandmother Oma and my grandfather Opa, which are basically the German version of grandma and grandpa
I speak German and we usually call our grandmas "Oma" and our grandpas "Opa". In my family we add their names after Oma and Opa, but it's almost all of their nicknames. My mum's parents are called Johanna and Josef, but we call them Oma Hanni and Opa Seppl. My dad's parents are called Maria and Robert, he's still called Opa Robert, but she's called Oma Maridl.
I call one of my grandmas “Grammie” another is just “grandma Pattie” and the third one of literally “grandma from Florida”. My third grandma calls me “Lily from New York”
Lol to the third one. My Grandpa is just Grandpa, and so was my step grandpa, so to separate them, I would call my step grandpa “Grandpa” or “Grandpa (his name)” and my other Grandpa “Grandpa with the Sailboat” because he owns a sailboat
I have several friends who recently went through this. One was new to the area and didn’t realize it was a thing until people begin asking what her new grandbaby was going to call her. 😊
I referred to my grandmothers, one as "grandma or granma" and "mama". I loved them so much! I really love seeing all the variations of how we refer to our grandparents especially I'm different regions and countries.
I became a grandfather at the relatively young age of 43. I had my daughter at 20 so it stood to reason. At first it was difficult for me to process but once I got past the initial shock I realized I had to come up with my Grandfather name. I settled on PopPop and it's served me well. My little one just turned 7 and I can't hold her anymore she's growing so fast. But I'm a cool grandpa. I play video games with her and am teaching her about the long forgotten era of rock music. She has an affinity for Led Zeppelin because of me and I'm not ashamed of that.
My dad introduced me to Cheap Trick with "Dream Police" and "I Want You to Want Me". Been listening to them actively for almost two years now and am hooked!
My dad just passed away. He was telling me the week before that he always regretted that he wasn't granddad for any of the grandkids. That's what we called his dad, who passed away when I was 5. Luckily my dad got to know his grandchildren longer. I was the youngest of his parents' grandkids. My nephew is the youngest, and just turned 19.
My cousin's daughter was my aunt's first grandchild, and for whatever reason, nobody knows why, the grandchild decided to call her Honey. Now all of the grandchildren call her that. At the time, none of us had ever heard that used as a grandmother name, but I've since run across it once or twice.
@Crystalized Reader That's what happened to my mom, as well. My cousin's young son started calling her Honey because he heard my father calling her that. :D
I just had my first grandbaby and I chose my grandmother name to be Honey. My mom wanted it when my niece was born and my sister hated it so she chose Mimi. I took it for my own. I'd never heard it either but whats funny is, after my grandsons father decided to claim him we found out his mom, who's already a grandmother, is called Honey. Sooooo now he's got 2 Honeys.
Here's something funny: me and all my cousins from my ma's side call our grandma "Maman". Strange thing is, not even grandma is sure where it came from. Maman, as far as I understand, is a french word corresponding to "Mommy/Mummy". I'm one youngest of all my cousins, plus the fact I was raused by grandma, so it would make sense fro me to call my grandma "Mummy", but the term "Maman" was apparently already in use since my oldest cousin. We have no french relations as far as i'm aware, we have no french ancestry, and we're nowhere near any french-speaking people. It's funnily weird.
In my family, we’ve had Grandma, Gigi (for a few grandmothers), Granny, one was called by her first name, and a couple came up with original grandmother names, which I won’t share for the sake of privacy. I’ve also heard Nana, Nanny, Mimi, Gumma, Grandi, MeeMaw, and the simple Grandmother. I love that there are so many grandparent names.
You forgot Nana. Glad to hear Mimi used. I call my grandmother that . I'm thankful she still has a skip in her step and just turned 102. She's a blessing from God on this family.😊😊😊😊 . . . I rarely could find Nana cards but never except once in a very slim blue moon find Mimi... Both always seem so under used in general. Growing up I was happy when I found some Nana cards, and the little times I found Mimi as I recall once or twice seeing it... As a child I recall getting such odd looks from friends and people when they heard me say these names. I mean it seriously felt like I was the only person sometimes who used these ones. lol ;)
We called my great grandmother Mimi, but pronounced it Mim-me. I always thought it was just her name because everyone called her that. It was only after I was an adult that I found out her name was Anna Mary.
@@leepope3377 I get that. My family does the same. I will note before I continue with this thought that, I was and am the only daughter of my Mimi's youngest child and her only son, so my dad grew up with over ten years between him and his sisters, So when I say "cousins" they're technically my second cousins, since all the cousins I would have been in the same generation with were all adults some with children or graduating by the time I was born literally my technically oldest cousin was like a kid sister to my dad. Likewise I became the "baby" like my dad and kid sister to the generation I technically belong to. With that I'll go back to my train of thought... My "cousins" used to call her "Mimi" even their baby siblings still do occasionally. But as they grew being the second/third generation (?) they began being told to call her Grandma Eggie, after her middle name. While I being from the last of my generation, was praised and pushed to continue to call her what literally was what I called her without being asked to do so when I could make my first words or names for people. (I think I was told I'm the reasons people began calling her Mimi seeing how much she loved it when I was a literal tot who couldn't put together words and just used sounds). The reason, is I guess since my Mimi was an adult and even as a teen she utterly refused to go by her given name. Actually to this day just mentioning it repulses her, makes her groan and make these purposefully dramatic hacking sounds or cries. It's kinda hilarious. To me it's not that bad.. but lets just say the name is akin to Medusa, but also isn't. It's the visual reference I had as a kid when thinking of the name. I'm not saying the actual name but it's close enough. As a kid I easily saw why she hated the actual name she was given. But as I've grown I kinda like it to an extent it was unique and though sounds harsh has a nice ring to it. I think to honor her parents she never had the heart to legally change her given name, and by tehn everyone already called her by some nickname or her middle name, so she had no reason to honestly correct people on it. Although, then again I can't recall seeing her first name on her drivers license so maybe she did change it. Still, I love seeing her reactions to her name though I never dare call her by it. Just hearing her moan and groan randomly when she thinks or brings it up herself is severely cute and bemusing.
@@cassgray9340 That's utterly cute. I have a neighbor up the street, who my family has been long time friends with, it's kinda ironic how when the fam moved we they happened to live far away each time. But she also goes by Kay, and her grandkids (who I grew up with) do the same. Although, I think they either say Granny K (for the younger grandkids), Grandma Kay or something different now. They may say something else, as I don't see or talk to the her grandkids as much as when we were children. But it's something I recall well. She kinda acts like a grandma or aunt to those kids she's watched grow up, super sweet lady. :) Also super thanks for the birthday wishes to Mimi. I'll try to remember to pass it on when I see her next. She loves hearing messages like this even if from total strangers. She's literally the type to make friends anywhere you go, my baby cousins entire basketball team and track literally made her their Cheerleader and the one the look forward to seeing every game. :) So she'd love to hear this too. Also before I forget, God Bless your family and Your Grandmas Nana And Grammy Kay. I wish them all a wonderful New Year, as well with you. Stay safe and healthy during this uncertain time. Lastly, Merry Belated Christmas!!!!
@@colorgaurdsweethreat3474 Aww, thank you! Your Mimi and your family friend sound like such lovely and open-hearted women! Please do send my birthday wishes to your Mimi!
Truth! I wanted Nana, but the 'other mom' wanted it. My second daughter was taking German in school, so seeing as that is a large part of our heritage, we ended up Oma and Opa! We love it, but a part of me still wanted Nana. After said second daughter had children, we were talking about it and she was like, 'Okay, OmaNana then!' My daughter is a genius.
Just know that no matter what you choose, your grandchild(ren) may just end up choosing for you! My best friend's family uses Beama/Bampa. She's the eldest and couldn't pronounce Grandma/Grandpa as a kid, so she did her best and the rest of the family followed suit. They now use Bea for short... so cute!
My parents were offended that I didn’t ask what they wanted to be called. I have a cousin that asked and her parents wanted to be Mamaw and Papaw. That is the exact reason I didn’t ask!!! Well, they didn’t take no for an answer. My mom wanted Grammy (which is an awesome name that I want myself if my kids ever give me grandkids!) but my dad wanted to be Papaw!! Yeah no. Fortunately my son couldn’t/didn’t pronounce that so he was Papa. Perfect!
This is exactly what it was like for my mother to pick a name when my nephew was born. A whole 9 months of stressing over whether a name was grandma enough without being _ too_ grandma that it made her sound old.
I became a first-time grandmother last October. My baby sister had already picked out "Chichi" as my grandmother name. In Curacao, where we vacation, "chichi" refers to the oldest sister in the family - the one everyone goes to for advice. That's me, so it's now my grandmother name. ❤
Just be aware that if you go anywhere Spanish speaking, people are going to giggle everywhere she says it, as "chichi" is a crude name for a female body part. 😉
We call my maternal grandmother “Granny” and she’s almost exactly like the depiction here, sweet, loves to knit. The only difference is she’s South African and definitely not southern lol. Very different accents
My mother went with Grammy so I sent this to her when I had my son and she loved it. It made her so happy, and honestly she is a movie star to her gran kids when she walks in.
As the first grandchild on both sides of my family, I got to name both sets of grandparents, and let me tell you, it is such a powerful feeling! One of my grandmothers got stuck as Nonnie because I couldn’t pronounce her first name, Dottie.
I live in South Africa and many people call their grandmothers (and any other elderly ladies) Gogo, which means grandmother in Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, etc).
My family is South African and the grandkids call my mom Makhulu. My nephew couldn't say it growing up so he called her "Khu" lol Can't wait til my grandkids can call me that! It's an honor!
When my oldest niece first learned to talk, she started calling her grandma “Margo.” We have no idea where it came from, but it was cute so it stuck! 😂
My Aunt Jeanne’s grandkids gave her the most unique grandma name I have ever heard: “Mambull”. Don’t ask me how her grandkids came up with that one but my aunt is a very young, energetic spirit with a hilarious sense of humor and the name suits her perfectly 😂😂
I wished I’d seen this before my sweet darling granddaughter named me Momo after her little stuffed monkey :-/ Being a new grandmother I didn’t realize I had the option to change my name.
Oh I think it's nice. You should too, because once they pick it there's no changing their minds. You don't actually get to choose. People just think you do.
The "Lala" thing made me chuckle. My cousin's name is Laura, and her dad said that when she was born, they tried to find her a name that no one could make a nickname out of. The first time his mom met her, though, she said, "I'm going to call you Lala!"
Yes you do lol. You can introduce yourself as whatever you want, even to your grandkids. If I was Elizabeth and I wanted to start going by Liz that’s what I’d introduce myself as. Actually, used to go by a nickname I didn’t like. So I asked people to stop using it and call me something else and they did.
I call my grandma "Meme". No, not like a meme, but pronounced meh-may. And my grandpa is Pepe. Yeah, like Pepe the frog. Meme and Pepe. Simple, easy on the tongue, and a blessing to hear.
My Dad: grandpa is fine. My Mom: I’ll let you know when it comes to me. This isn’t a name that is chosen lightly-attention to detail is a must. Me: are you serious?
If I'm going to spend the entire second half of my life being called something by what will end up being multiple generations of my family, I'm going to have a say. And don't forget the politics involved. You can't use a name already in use on either side of the kids family, then you have to smile while fighting the other grandmother ( bless her heart) for rights for whatever titles are left. This is tuff stuff
I love this because my mom wanted my nephew to call her Grammie, but he could never pronounce his Gs and always used Bs instead, so then she was Brammie and loved it. Then though, when he got older, he called her Grammie and she got so upset about it- I’ve got a few different ones I use. My dad’s mom is Nanna, my mom’s mom is Grandma, my stepdad’s mom is Eita and my other grandmas are just Grandma [First name/Nickname]
my family is very polish so turned the word for grandma in polish “babcia” to a simpler version (for kids cause babcia is a little hard for little kids to pronounce) “buscia” and my other grandma is mimi cause she wouldn’t respond to any other name (she was a teen mom when she had my mom so she’s younger for a grandma so i’m not surprised she wanted a less “old” sounding name)
When I was first learning to talk I would add "gy" to the end of everything and so I took the "ma" off of grandma and added "gy" and thus Moggy was born.
I called my paternal grandma “Granny”. I called my maternal grandmother “Grandma”. Both my grandfathers were “Grandpa”. All my grandparents have since passed on. I was barely 21 when I lost my last grandparent. They were older grandparents when I was born. Both of my parents are the youngest of their siblings.
Same here. My dad's parents were "Grandma and Grandpa LastName" and my mom's were "Grandma FirstName and Grandpa FirstName" and the fierce debates and fraught decision making over grandparent names is totally foreign and needlessly ridiculous to me. @@emeff5786
My maternal grandmother is grandmama and my paternal grandmother is Nana. I love them both so dearly and I'm so glad to have them. Nana makes the best food and grandmama is always there to be proud of me and pat me on the back for any little accomplishment. They're both some of the most wonderful people I know and I'm glad I get to know them.
My grandmother went by Grandmother and refused to be called anything else as she saw it as a lack of respect. Lol So, we called her Grandmommy Dearest behind her back.
Both my grandmothers were named Elizabeth. One was country the other city. So I had a "Gramma" and a "Grandmother" They both were always called Ma'am!😄 Love this channel! Bless y'alls hearts.🤗 And God bless grandmothers 💚
My mom had a Grandmother whose name was Daisy Mae and everyone of course called Grandmother. She called my mom Sharon Anne so my mom called her Granny. It was a mutual understanding lol.
Could be worse, I got mixed up with the babysitters cat! Me: call me nana Babysitters cat: neena Me: Neenee I love my grandkids, they can call me whatever they want, it's perfect
I laughed so hard at this. My grandson had trouble with Nana so I was Nena for a long time. As I told my son, children will call people what they want, not necessarily what we want.
This is hilarious. I had a Mimi and a Mawmaw. We just called my great grandmother by her name - Bobby. Granddad was Pawpaw. I tried renaming him, didn't work out. 😂
I call my grandmother PopPop because when I was three or so, she visited and had a bag that looked just like Mary Poppins', but I couldn't pronounce it. I continue to say it now because my aunt thinks it's immature and I love making people annoyed by my love
Oh Erin, it's not immature. I'm sure your PopPop Loves it! My Granddaughter called her only Great Grandma, Papa Barbie. None of us know why she chose to say Papa, but it stuck. Now, even tho she's passed on, we all call her Papa Barbie. 😍
As long as you and PopPop are good with it, doesn’t really matter what your aunt thinks!😜 I always worked hard at especially showing my love to a few family members who are like your aunt, so they see that I’m gonna love them no matter how negative they are… so you go!!!🙏❤️
I had three grandmas, well technically 2 since the third is just my older neighbor who would babysit me when I was a kid and I spent the most time with her. My true biological grandma's were called Grandma and Oma. Easy because one was English/American and the other was German. The two have passed away so all I have left is Grandpa and Opa- although I don't talk to them much either- especially since I never learned German.
I know a woman who took more than a year trying to decide on something that didn't make her sound old. She finally settled on 'sugar', but the baby had already started talking and would only call her 'lady'
I call my grandmother ‘Darling’ because when I was a baby she called me darling and I repeated it back to her. All her friends are jealous 😄
SirNovaway aww that's so sweet!
This is by far the most adorable comment I've ever seen on RUclips. Faith in humanity restored!
AWWWWWWWWWW! 😍😢💖
That's awesome
My little cousin did that! I’d say “mornin honey” in a country accent when we’d go stay there overnight and now my name is just “honey”
Disappointed they didn’t put the classical southern yet Elegant “Nana”. That word speaks home cooked meals.
I like Nana too but where i come from It usually what you call your older baby sitter or care taker.
I had a “Nana”! She was one of my great aunts, I think! She was very nice, and made soup for us. Her elderly neighbors also gave me a ton of candy once. I miss her.
@@MisSorryforthespam That’s really cool actually. I’m never heard of anyone calling someone other than their grandma that.
@@toastwell6488 She sounds like she is/was a lovely woman.
Nana is what my late Grandmother was called. Everyone in the street called her that. My children called her "Grand-Nan". She was "Nana" to 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grand children and I've lost count of how many great great grandchildren. My MIL is Nanny to her grandchildren and "Ganny" to her great grands. My oldest great nephew came up with that one.
When you're the first grandchild in the family: "Reality can be whatever I want"
I'm the middle child but I still got to pick the name I have the power.
I chose Maggie.
Sure, until another grandkid comes along and rejects your choice!
@@jfm14 That's where you're wrong kid. By the time another grandchild comes the nickname would have already been ingrained in everyone and no one usually bothers to change it again
Sooo true! My elder cousin named our grandparents and that was it!
I accidentally gave my grandfather “grepapa” when I was around four because of speech issues.
My son couldn't say "Gramy" it came out "Bambi". And didn't grandma latch on to that one quick! Best way to become the favorite grandchild!
Bambi is so adorable, and congratulations!
Mine too! I was the grandkid through.
CUTE!!! My mom is Grammy, and my son calls her “Bam-Ma” 😍
Bambi's the cutest grandma name ever!
aww! that's adorable!
I'm an aunty, not a grandma, and my little nephews call me "Beep Beep."
Nuclear Wessels that's the cutest !! Edit: good grief autocorrect...lol....what was trying to say... that is the cutest (name)!!! Lol
My nephew called me Ya Ya when he was little.
Wait... THERE ARE AUNTIE NAMES !?! I got stuck with Aunt Katie.
Me and my sister are the 'Fire Aunts', due to both of us having red hair. (And Tim Hawkins' song. Lol.)
My nephews call me Mimi. Apparently I'm not the only one. I've met 5 aunt friends that are all named Amy and their nieces and nephews call them Mimi too!
Americans: Granny, memaw, mimi, gig, grammy.
Scottish people: gran
For the short time I knew my great grandmother we called her Gran
Right! (Thanks for reminding everyone--I'm a descendant of: McThomas of the Meeting Rock, & McQuilling of Dunluce Castle of Ulster, married to descendant of: McEwen). Bless Ya.
We say granny an aw
And what is Grandpa called?
@@raisingolives77 my husband's people call their grandpas: "Gramps", but my Scottish & N Irelanders immigrated to America before the potato famine (before: 1848-1851), & landed in the Appalachian Mountains, & intermarried Native American Tribal peoples: our clans call our grandfathers: "Paw-paw", & "Grandpa". (Fun fact: there is a Paw-paw fruit that grows at the foothills of the Appalachias: in N Georgia: it tastes best, right when ripened & picked--it doesn't: "save" well.) God Bless Everyone!
I called my grandmother Mimi. Her first five grandkids just called her grandma. I don’t know why exactly, but us last ten grandkids always called her Mimi.
Me, my siblings, and my cousins call my grandma " Gam-maw". Her mother was "Me-maw", and HER mother was granny. My grandma used to call her great-grandfather "papa-dad".
My first 4 just called me Gramma. But when the 5th started talking my son asked if it would be a problem if she called me Nana (the ah sound) because she was having a hard time saying any other choices. She's 8 now & I really don't remember when it changed to gramma. It's really the Love u hear in whatever they call u! 💗💕
So many grandkids
@@back136 yep. She had five kids, and that comes out to a lot of grandkids! I’m one of four, there’s three groups of three, and then my favorite aunt has 2. Our ages range from early 30s to 8.
This is odd to me as an English person as the most common name here is nanny or Nan like there’s no mimis here
My friend's southern grandmother had a typical grandmother name, until her eldest granddaughter started calling her "Honey" as a toddler. She asked her "Why are you calling me Honey?" My friend replied "Well, Grampa calls you Honey." Her grandmother was enchanted, and has been Honey ever since to all grandchildren. Even I call her Honey!
That reminds me of how I called my grandma “mom” because my parents and I lived with her when I was young and that’s what my mom called her, so to differentiate my mom and grandma I started calling her grandma mom! I love how kids find names for things
I call my grandma Honey too! And my grandpa is Bear :,)
My oldest cousin has always called my grandpa Honey lol so does my grandma, the rest of us have always called him Pa though
That’s exactly what happened to me and my Grandma. One day she wasn’t listening to me calling to her and since she always responded to my Grandpa when he said “Honey”, I called her that. She was stunned and it’s a funny memory she tells now.
@@marieremelie6716 I can relate cus I call my grandparents nanay in Filipino that means mother and tatay meaning father but since I always did it it stuck on
I named my grandma “mommy’s mom” because I needed a logical understanding of who she was even at 3 😂
My 2yr daughter called my mom, “Gamma”. When she met my grandmother, she was really confused. She understood how she fit into the picture but my calling her, “Grandma” was just too much. She pointed to my mother and said, “Gamma!” Then she pointed to my grandmother and said, “Gamma Gamma!”
From then on, even though we were all adults by then (23 of us) and all of our children (I honestly do not know how many) all called my grandmother. “Gamma Gamma”. My daughter’s 33 now; we still refer to my grandmother the same way.
You both have/were smart babies
I knew her as the same thing sometimes, but it wasn't her grandma name.
In sweden it's farmor(famo) and mormor(momo) for the grandmas, far=father and mor=mother.
@@flamenmartialis6839 my grandmother is Swedish and all the grandchildren called her Mormor
My mom decided that her grandma name will be Lolly and my dad’s grandpa name will be Pop, so they’ll be Lolly and Pop and I just think that is so cute
That’s ridiculously sweet ❤️
Mine were Nana and Papaw
@@cassgray9340 ...just like a lollipop is sweet! :D
@@gracehaven5459 hey same!
Too funny...I had actually picked that when my G daughter was born...her name is Lilah...but I found that I was calling her my Lolly or my lollipop. So I changed it to Nonnie and Poppy....that's stuck!
They should've added "babushka" then a skit of grandma firing tanks
yes
Callmekris vibes tho
They couldn't do that because who wouldn't choose it!
@@sabertoothed_stargazer why wouldn't you
That's Russian-light. I call mine "babulechka-krasotulechka".
My Grammy just passed in June and she wasn’t southern, but she was fabulous and was SO PROUD to be a Grammy. This video made me smile 🥲
My Grammy passed away three years ago, actually it will officially be three years next week! She was the sweetest person. She put others before herself. Her family was her whole world. I am so sorry for your loss. I know it’s hard to loose such a big and impactful personality. You are so lucky to have a Grammy, and I am so glad this video made you smile!!❤️
May your grandmothers rest in peace, to the both of you.
Lauren , very sorry to hear about your loss. I'm sure she was a very fabulous and wonderful Grammy!
Sending love healing and light for you and your family!
I said a prayer for your Grammy.
Sorry for your loss.
I call my grandma “lita” as a shortened version of abuelita. When I was young I couldn’t pronounce the whole word, so I just said lita, now my whole family calls her that.
My girls called my papi and mami lito and lita for the same reason... pronunciation. 🙂
All my mom's grand kids call her " wella ." My sisters grandkids call her Lita. Both short for abuelita. I ended up grandma.
That is so cute
Lol my son did the same thing couldn’t pronounce Abuelita so it came out Vita. My mom liked it said he had to call her that and for 30 years that was not just her grandmother name but become her name. My brother, family and friends all called her Vita. I can’t remember the last time I called her mami it was always Vita and will be forever🙏🏻
Oh lol I called my late grandmother that also!! Her name was Gladys so I would call her Lita Liadis since I couldn't pronounce abuelita Gladys!! I still call her that whenever I call about her.
When my son was small he started calling my dad Bob. His name was Bryan and we had been calling him poppa and one day out of nowhere it was just Bob.
Lol. One of my daycare kids couldn't say Gabby so she called me Bob. 🤣
Haha! Same thing with my little sister. When she was around 2 she couldn't pronounce my brother's name 'Daniel' (we never use 'Dan' or 'Danny') and then one day she just wouldn't stop calling him 'Bobby'. No idea why variants of 'Bob' are a go-to name for kids.
This is how my father-in-law Bill became 'Maynard'. XD
My mom when she was small used to call her brother ,,Jaś" (pronounce: similiar to ,,iash"). His name is Wojtek (pronounce ,,voitak").
Your kid is going places
My Granny was my world. I used to tell my husband I love her first and him second. She passed away 10 years ago and I miss her all the time, especially now that I’m a Mama myself!
I said a prayer for her.
i guess i couldn't pronounce "grandma" or "me-ma" when i was younger, so one of my grandmas is "Ema", so my grandpa is "Epa". I also have a Nana and Poppy, which just goes together i guess 🤷♀️ My Nana chose those names for them. My great grandma decided she wasn't having any nonsense- so we call her Grandmother, and her husband is Grandad. I have had a Me-ma and Peh-pa, along with a Mimi and Pa-pa for great grandparents, but they are all gone now 😔 Still, i am very lucky to have known them, and I still have two great-grandparents right now
My great grandparents were GiGi and Poppy
I'm suddenly reminded of an iconic quote from Grampa (during the 2007 Simpson's movie):
Beware, BEWARE! Time is short, Eeeepa, Eeeepa, EEEEEPA! Believe me! BELIEVE MEEEEEEE!
Aww I like Ema & Epa.
I'm only 32 but I already know I want my grandma name to be Oma
@@Zimoria I called my *very* Bayern grandmother Oma/Omi.
@@Zimoria are you german?
It’s easier when you have two grandmas that speak two different langauges.
No competition, no confusion, no problem
And hopefully the kid becomes multi lingual. Positive vibes from New Hampshire,remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis
Yeah ikr I lv it
Yes, my daughters had "grandma" and "yiayia." The great grandma was called "Grandma Rolena" although for some strange reason I decided to call my grandma Rolena, "Nonnie" when I was a kid and it stuck.
Fr I have a grandma and an abuela
Yeah I got me a nana and a vovó
I started out being a “Grammy”, because that’s what we encouraged my grandson to call me... but then my granddaughter came along and decided that I am a “Mimi”, so that’s what I’ve been to everyone ever since!🙏❤️
That sounds like what happened to my brother and I! I started out calling our grandmother “Grammy” but when he came along 4 years later he had a hard time with the pronunciation so we both called her “Mimi” instead. Both are top notch names!
@@tiredwolfe - Agreed! I happily respond to whatever they want to call me!😉
@@robind8149 Definitely! The one Using the name should be the one who picks it!
Grammy award
Same thing happened to my mom
Unci is the Lakota word for “mother’s mom” and that’s me! Right now my grandson just says random sounds so I guess I have to wait to see what he calls me.
I don’t know what Lakota is but that sounds too cute!
@@marieremelie6716 Lakota is one of the indigenous dialects spoken by people in the Soux nation. I’m soux lakota aka indigenous aka First Nation.
noni akamai is a really nice name ngl
my mother taught my kids to call her Queen Mother and that is what they actually call her. The looks i get in public when they call for her are hilarious
This one has rocketed instantly to my top five.
You’ll be called whatever the first grandkid decides to call you. Period. You don’t always get a choice. My two sisters and I all wanted to be Nana. The oldest one is Grammy, the middle one is Nee and I’m Granna. My granddaughters were 8 & 10 when they, and their dad, came into our lives.
The first time I met them, the K year old says: So, what are we gonna call you?
Me: How about Nana?
K: Nah. I don’t like it.
Me: Well then, come up with something else.
K: Okay, I will.
Fifteen minutes later she comes back.
K: I’ve got it!
Me: Lay it on me.
K: We’re gonna call you Granna cause it’s part Grandma and part Nana so it’s better!
And I’ve been Granna ever since. You can’t argue with 8-year old logic!. She’s now almost 18 and a senior in high school. Her sister is 19 and a freshman in college. All the grandkids who’ve come after have fallen in line and call me Granna.
I agree - whatever the first grandchild calls you is the one that stays. Some women come up with alternate names because the don't want people to think they are old. Ha! Look in the mirror, sister, you ain't foolin' nobody!
Agreed. My mom was fine with "grandma," but my first child, the first grandbaby, pronounced it as "Monk" as a baby. 10 years later and my mom is still proudly known as Monk. You don't find that one on a keychain. 😂
My daughter and her cousin will call their grandparents grandma and grandpa... no special nicknames
@@ooookkkkkkkkkkk
😏
I called my mum the NannyGranny & that’s what all the kids call her 😆
My older cousin, for whatever reason, started calling our grandmother June’s mom (after my mom’s name June, her favorite aunt. In time we all (18 of us) came to call her Juniemom. She lived to 94. My mom, June, just celebrated her 100th birthday on June 29, 2020.
God bless y'all❤
Wow! A happy birthday for your Mom.
That’s amazing! You’ve got good genetics :-) Happy birthday to your mom! ❤️🙏
My birthday is June 29th! I've never met anyone that shares my birthday, until now.
That's an awesome story. God bless your family.
My 18 yr old grandson Austin sent me this from you tube and it just made me smile!! I’m Grammie. I’m also a nurse midwife and delivered 2 of my 6 g-kids. Love love being a Grammie ❤️♥️
Hello Sandra
Hello Sandra, how are you doing today?🌹
My paternal grandfather was "Boompa" and when my granddaughter was born, I became Boompa, I carry this title with enormous pride
When your grandchildren are teenagers and adults, their friends will be embarrassed for them.
@@perniciouspete4986 Bet your parents are ashamed of their son who amounted to nothing but an anonymous internet troll. Burn baby, burn. 🔥
Boompa is a dope name. Your grandkids are lucky to have a grandpa that carries his title with pride and joy.
@@perniciouspete4986 "Boompa" here, my granddaughter just turned 14, and she lets her peers know that she loves her dad, Boompa and her "Omi" (german for grandma) and instead of getting embarrassed by the comments they make she feels bad for them for not having as close and loving relationships as she has with us,
My little tribe of grandkids will call me "The Matriarch"
😂😂😂😂 this is the best!!!
y e s
And house rules are listed in The Matriarch Manifesto...
My Big Momma (what we called my Dad's mother) her manifesto was no matter what even if you had been indoors all day you were taking a bath before you slept in the guest bedroom!
And I suppose their grandpa will be called “The Patriarch” and a bunch of feminists will kill him. The end.
WHEN I TELL YOU I WHEEZED
I'm form Poland and the word "Grandma" is translated as "Babcia", I used to call mine "Babcia kapcia" when I was younger, because I am extra.
In serbia it's usually Baba, or Babushka, so I used to call her Baba Jaba, which translates to Grandma frog... I'm a tad bit extra too
My son has a Babcia. Babcia Danuta.
@@marinairathemagnificent haha tad
@@marinairathemagnificent well, better than Baba Yaga lol
My dad is from Poland and we called his mother Babcia ☺️
Whenever my oldest grandson came over I would hold out my arms and yell, Babe, I'm so glad your here! Now on my 6th grandchild I'm the one who is called Babe by all of them. I tried explaining to them once that I wasn't named Babe but that went no where...lol.
This is so me! I tried Mimi for close to a year and had to return it for Grammy! 👵🏻
Look man y’all forgot Mawmaw and that’s a heinous offense. A Memaw and a Mawmaw are 2 completely different classes of grandmother.
Dont forget the Mamaw, which is an in between of the mamaw and the mawmaw.
True, my Great Aunt was called Mawmaw by my cousins (she's my great aunt but their grandmother) so whenever there was a family party I always heard them say "Mawmaw"
I call my grandma maw maw can’t believe they didn’t include it
I call one of my grandmas memaw and I call one of my grandmas mawmaw. I don’t under why I do but I guess it’s just a southern thing!!
Mimi Sands I call it Mamaw
I called my grandmother “Oma” the German name for granny.
Sketches of WTBOUO same here!!!
I say omi
Same for the Dutch, Oma and Opa
Sketches of WTBOUO SAME!!!!!!
Sketches of WTBOUO your comment made me so happy!
The ending tugs at my heartstrings every time and never fails to make me tear up. When I was a kid, I had a hard time pronouncing the Y sound. My dad is Greek, and the Greek word for Grandmother is Yiayia. When I was learning how to pronounce Yiayia, it always came out as Lala. It just stuck, all these years later, even at my current age of 31.
My Lala died in 2008 and I miss her so much. She was my best friend and the one person I could turn to for literally everything. From a casual conversation, to serious advice. My Lala was the one I always went to.
As an adoptee, I am fortunate to have another set of grandparents. I call my other adoptive grandmother "Gramma", one biological grandmother "Nana", and the other biological grandmother "Yiayia" (Both my adoptive and biological fathers are Greek). But it will always be my Lala which makes this video tug at my heartstrings.
@davidgreg6907 I refuse to disclose that information on the internet. Personal reasons. Also, please respect if someone is not religious as not everyone is.
I've always just called my grandma "grandma", although when I was younger I always spelled it "Grama", and even now my grandma still signs all her emails as "Grama Mattie" ♥️
She looks like a nana
WHY YOU NO GIVE HER NANA?!
Princess Stigma yeaaaaa my nan is called nana
IKR
Nana is German for Grandma and Opa is Grandfather
Yesssss I was thinking nana the entire time
Yea my moms mother we call he nana and my dads mom we call her nani
My son named my mother Yaya, because when he was a baby, he would coo and talk and she would always say "yeah yeah yeah... what are you talkin about"❤ Yaya is actually is Greek for Grandma. 😆
Clever baby
I called my Greek grandmother "Yia-yia" and did not know until I was about 12 or so that it is the Greek word for Grandmother.
I call my Spanish grandma Yaya as well, but in my case it’s because it’s a common way to refer to your grandma in Spain. I also call my German grandmother Oma and my grandfather Opa, which are basically the German version of grandma and grandpa
And Papoo is grandfather to the Greeks!
I speak German and we usually call our grandmas "Oma" and our grandpas "Opa". In my family we add their names after Oma and Opa, but it's almost all of their nicknames. My mum's parents are called Johanna and Josef, but we call them Oma Hanni and Opa Seppl. My dad's parents are called Maria and Robert, he's still called Opa Robert, but she's called Oma Maridl.
My entire family calls her "Mami" (were Hispanic) since she raised me and my cousins while our parents worked, she's like our second mom
I call one of my grandmas “Grammie” another is just “grandma Pattie” and the third one of literally “grandma from Florida”. My third grandma calls me “Lily from New York”
Lol to the third one. My Grandpa is just Grandpa, and so was my step grandpa, so to separate them, I would call my step grandpa “Grandpa” or “Grandpa (his name)” and my other Grandpa “Grandpa with the Sailboat” because he owns a sailboat
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Lol
Wait
Hol up
@@justarandomtechpriest1578
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They forgot “Nanny” and “Nana”!
Yep mine is nanny and Mamaw
Yupp my husbands mom is nanny. And of course nana is really popular lol.
My grandma is nana and my great grandmother (rip💜) was mawmaw
Mine is Nana and my since deceased Nanny
I have a Nana. We say it like "Naw-nuh"
I have several friends who recently went through this. One was new to the area and didn’t realize it was a thing until people begin asking what her new grandbaby was going to call her. 😊
I referred to my grandmothers, one as "grandma or granma" and "mama". I loved them so much!
I really love seeing all the variations of how we refer to our grandparents especially I'm different regions and countries.
I became a grandfather at the relatively young age of 43. I had my daughter at 20 so it stood to reason. At first it was difficult for me to process but once I got past the initial shock I realized I had to come up with my Grandfather name. I settled on PopPop and it's served me well. My little one just turned 7 and I can't hold her anymore she's growing so fast. But I'm a cool grandpa. I play video games with her and am teaching her about the long forgotten era of rock music. She has an affinity for Led Zeppelin because of me and I'm not ashamed of that.
Get her on some Van Halen, Rush, Scorpions, Ozzy, Nirvana, and Santana.
Gotta teach 'em young 🤘
My dad introduced me to Cheap Trick with "Dream Police" and "I Want You to Want Me". Been listening to them actively for almost two years now and am hooked!
Forgotten? Rock's coming back!
My dad just passed away. He was telling me the week before that he always regretted that he wasn't granddad for any of the grandkids. That's what we called his dad, who passed away when I was 5. Luckily my dad got to know his grandchildren longer. I was the youngest of his parents' grandkids. My nephew is the youngest, and just turned 19.
My cousin's daughter was my aunt's first grandchild, and for whatever reason, nobody knows why, the grandchild decided to call her Honey. Now all of the grandchildren call her that. At the time, none of us had ever heard that used as a grandmother name, but I've since run across it once or twice.
That is a very clever name.
My mother is a Honey. That's been her grandmother name for 34 years.
@Crystalized Reader That's what happened to my mom, as well. My cousin's young son started calling her Honey because he heard my father calling her that. :D
I just had my first grandbaby and I chose my grandmother name to be Honey. My mom wanted it when my niece was born and my sister hated it so she chose Mimi. I took it for my own. I'd never heard it either but whats funny is, after my grandsons father decided to claim him we found out his mom, who's already a grandmother, is called Honey. Sooooo now he's got 2 Honeys.
That’s what we call my grandmother! I never knew there were other “Honeys” out there :)
Here's something funny: me and all my cousins from my ma's side call our grandma "Maman". Strange thing is, not even grandma is sure where it came from. Maman, as far as I understand, is a french word corresponding to "Mommy/Mummy". I'm one youngest of all my cousins, plus the fact I was raused by grandma, so it would make sense fro me to call my grandma "Mummy", but the term "Maman" was apparently already in use since my oldest cousin. We have no french relations as far as i'm aware, we have no french ancestry, and we're nowhere near any french-speaking people. It's funnily weird.
Fun fact: "Memaw," "Mawmaw," and several other frequently used Southern grandma names are descended from the French word "Maman"
@@DarthFurie Oh cool!
In my family, we’ve had Grandma, Gigi (for a few grandmothers), Granny, one was called by her first name, and a couple came up with original grandmother names, which I won’t share for the sake of privacy. I’ve also heard Nana, Nanny, Mimi, Gumma, Grandi, MeeMaw, and the simple Grandmother. I love that there are so many grandparent names.
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I Call my Grandma,Grandmomma
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Huh, I like it!
@@hannahklunk6670 Thanks,I Miss Her Now Though,Covid Got Her Unfortunately
@@cjhs2006 Aw, I'm sorry
@@hannahklunk6670 Thanks
You forgot Nana. Glad to hear Mimi used. I call my grandmother that . I'm thankful she still has a skip in her step and just turned 102. She's a blessing from God on this family.😊😊😊😊
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I rarely could find Nana cards but never except once in a very slim blue moon find Mimi... Both always seem so under used in general. Growing up I was happy when I found some Nana cards, and the little times I found Mimi as I recall once or twice seeing it... As a child I recall getting such odd looks from friends and people when they heard me say these names. I mean it seriously felt like I was the only person sometimes who used these ones. lol ;)
We called my great grandmother Mimi, but pronounced it Mim-me. I always thought it was just her name because everyone called her that. It was only after I was an adult that I found out her name was Anna Mary.
Happy birthday to your Mimi, and God bless your beautiful family 🥰❤️🙏 My closest grandmother is called Nana :-) the other we call Grammy Kay.
@@leepope3377 I get that. My family does the same. I will note before I continue with this thought that, I was and am the only daughter of my Mimi's youngest child and her only son, so my dad grew up with over ten years between him and his sisters, So when I say "cousins" they're technically my second cousins, since all the cousins I would have been in the same generation with were all adults some with children or graduating by the time I was born literally my technically oldest cousin was like a kid sister to my dad. Likewise I became the "baby" like my dad and kid sister to the generation I technically belong to.
With that I'll go back to my train of thought... My "cousins" used to call her "Mimi" even their baby siblings still do occasionally. But as they grew being the second/third generation (?) they began being told to call her Grandma Eggie, after her middle name. While I being from the last of my generation, was praised and pushed to continue to call her what literally was what I called her without being asked to do so when I could make my first words or names for people. (I think I was told I'm the reasons people began calling her Mimi seeing how much she loved it when I was a literal tot who couldn't put together words and just used sounds). The reason, is I guess since my Mimi was an adult and even as a teen she utterly refused to go by her given name. Actually to this day just mentioning it repulses her, makes her groan and make these purposefully dramatic hacking sounds or cries. It's kinda hilarious. To me it's not that bad.. but lets just say the name is akin to Medusa, but also isn't. It's the visual reference I had as a kid when thinking of the name. I'm not saying the actual name but it's close enough. As a kid I easily saw why she hated the actual name she was given. But as I've grown I kinda like it to an extent it was unique and though sounds harsh has a nice ring to it. I think to honor her parents she never had the heart to legally change her given name, and by tehn everyone already called her by some nickname or her middle name, so she had no reason to honestly correct people on it. Although, then again I can't recall seeing her first name on her drivers license so maybe she did change it.
Still, I love seeing her reactions to her name though I never dare call her by it. Just hearing her moan and groan randomly when she thinks or brings it up herself is severely cute and bemusing.
@@cassgray9340 That's utterly cute. I have a neighbor up the street, who my family has been long time friends with, it's kinda ironic how when the fam moved we they happened to live far away each time. But she also goes by Kay, and her grandkids (who I grew up with) do the same. Although, I think they either say Granny K (for the younger grandkids), Grandma Kay or something different now. They may say something else, as I don't see or talk to the her grandkids as much as when we were children. But it's something I recall well. She kinda acts like a grandma or aunt to those kids she's watched grow up, super sweet lady. :)
Also super thanks for the birthday wishes to Mimi. I'll try to remember to pass it on when I see her next. She loves hearing messages like this even if from total strangers. She's literally the type to make friends anywhere you go, my baby cousins entire basketball team and track literally made her their Cheerleader and the one the look forward to seeing every game. :) So she'd love to hear this too.
Also before I forget, God Bless your family and Your Grandmas Nana And Grammy Kay. I wish them all a wonderful New Year, as well with you. Stay safe and healthy during this uncertain time.
Lastly, Merry Belated Christmas!!!!
@@colorgaurdsweethreat3474 Aww, thank you! Your Mimi and your family friend sound like such lovely and open-hearted women! Please do send my birthday wishes to your Mimi!
Truth! I wanted Nana, but the 'other mom' wanted it. My second daughter was taking German in school, so seeing as that is a large part of our heritage, we ended up Oma and Opa! We love it, but a part of me still wanted Nana. After said second daughter had children, we were talking about it and she was like, 'Okay, OmaNana then!' My daughter is a genius.
Just know that no matter what you choose, your grandchild(ren) may just end up choosing for you! My best friend's family uses Beama/Bampa. She's the eldest and couldn't pronounce Grandma/Grandpa as a kid, so she did her best and the rest of the family followed suit. They now use Bea for short... so cute!
I call my grandma “Roma”, a mix between her name, Rosanne, and Grandma. She came up with it herself!
That's actually a name for my race. So, it's like calling herself Caucasian or Polynesian, etc.
That's a really neat nickname actually
So I'm guessing all roads lead to Roma's Cookies..
When your at Roma's you do as Roma tells you. ...
OOOO SHE'S a Keeper.
I also call my grandpa Grandbob like that!
Roma Roma de mi vida
Roma Roma de mi amor
No me importa la distancia
Si estas en mi corazon
🎶
I just call my grandma , grandma
I cut out the nd.
My parents were offended that I didn’t ask what they wanted to be called. I have a cousin that asked and her parents wanted to be Mamaw and Papaw. That is the exact reason I didn’t ask!!! Well, they didn’t take no for an answer. My mom wanted Grammy (which is an awesome name that I want myself if my kids ever give me grandkids!) but my dad wanted to be Papaw!! Yeah no. Fortunately my son couldn’t/didn’t pronounce that so he was Papa. Perfect!
Traditional and classy
My family day meme pronounced meh-meh
i call mine oma
This is exactly what it was like for my mother to pick a name when my nephew was born. A whole 9 months of stressing over whether a name was grandma enough without being _ too_ grandma that it made her sound old.
I became a first-time grandmother last October. My baby sister had already picked out "Chichi" as my grandmother name. In Curacao, where we vacation, "chichi" refers to the oldest sister in the family - the one everyone goes to for advice. That's me, so it's now my grandmother name. ❤
Just be aware that if you go anywhere Spanish speaking, people are going to giggle everywhere she says it, as "chichi" is a crude name for a female body part. 😉
My mom is slowly accepting the fact that my 18 month old niece can say everyone's name but Meemaw and she is beside herself
My youngest G baby said Meemaw a few weeks ago and I walked on air the whole day!
We call my maternal grandmother “Granny” and she’s almost exactly like the depiction here, sweet, loves to knit. The only difference is she’s South African and definitely not southern lol. Very different accents
Nothing wrong with that. Hope her knits are “close to the swatch”
South Africa is way further south then where the people in these skits are from
hahah my south african grandma is the same
My grandmother is south African too. She was a badass
My parents are South African, they’re known as Ouma and Oupa to my nieces.
My mother went with Grammy so I sent this to her when I had my son and she loved it. It made her so happy, and honestly she is a movie star to her gran kids when she walks in.
As the first grandchild on both sides of my family, I got to name both sets of grandparents, and let me tell you, it is such a powerful feeling! One of my grandmothers got stuck as Nonnie because I couldn’t pronounce her first name, Dottie.
I live in South Texas and after lots of scrolling, hadn't seen what I called my grandma: Momo.
Cute!! Momo is a pet name in Japanese that means “peach”.
That's what I call my grandma
we call my grandma queenie
I live in Texas as well and my grandma is Gogo to us!
Atla "appa ate momo"
I live in South Africa and many people call their grandmothers (and any other elderly ladies) Gogo, which means grandmother in Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, etc).
That sounds cute
Neat-- that sounds nice
Don’t forget the classic ouma
Trevor Noah calls his grandmother "Gogo". I recently watched an interview with him.
My family is South African and the grandkids call my mom Makhulu. My nephew couldn't say it growing up so he called her "Khu" lol Can't wait til my grandkids can call me that! It's an honor!
When my oldest niece first learned to talk, she started calling her grandma “Margo.” We have no idea where it came from, but it was cute so it stuck! 😂
My Aunt Jeanne’s grandkids gave her the most unique grandma name I have ever heard: “Mambull”. Don’t ask me how her grandkids came up with that one but my aunt is a very young, energetic spirit with a hilarious sense of humor and the name suits her perfectly 😂😂
This is the most wholesome video I have ever seen
I wished I’d seen this before my sweet darling granddaughter named me Momo after her little stuffed monkey :-/ Being a new grandmother I didn’t realize I had the option to change my name.
I’m sure you already know this but momo means peach 🍑 in Japanese, so it’s actually really cute 🥰
I think she chose you a great name.
Momo is a great name
It's an Irish grandma name. It's what I called mine.
Oh I think it's nice. You should too, because once they pick it there's no changing their minds. You don't actually get to choose. People just think you do.
The "Lala" thing made me chuckle. My cousin's name is Laura, and her dad said that when she was born, they tried to find her a name that no one could make a nickname out of. The first time his mom met her, though, she said, "I'm going to call you Lala!"
The struggle is real. Bless your hearts. Cheers!
Grandma names should have the same policy as regular nicknames: you don't get to nickname yourself.
You try telling that to any grandma. They're old as shit let them have this 😂
Nah, it's always whatever pops out when the 1st grandkid viciously mispronounces her name. 😂
I did..lol
You do actually, in fact you can choose your own legal name so why not parental titles?
Yes you do lol. You can introduce yourself as whatever you want, even to your grandkids. If I was Elizabeth and I wanted to start going by Liz that’s what I’d introduce myself as. Actually, used to go by a nickname I didn’t like. So I asked people to stop using it and call me something else and they did.
We just call my grandmother Oma (we're originally from Germany)
Micaela Voss yes holland is the same
Yeah same (German and Dutch grand parents)
So does my friend - she's Austrian
Micaela Voss yes Austria is the same
Same (Germany)
I call my grandma "Meme". No, not like a meme, but pronounced meh-may. And my grandpa is Pepe. Yeah, like Pepe the frog. Meme and Pepe. Simple, easy on the tongue, and a blessing to hear.
The "Bless your heart." at the end... perfect!
In my family, we have quite a complicated one:
Grandma
Omg how do you pronouce that it's so hard
I have a harder spelling for that... Gramma
@@k-vy5nt grammar
XxGacha GirlxX Huh. I’m just saying how I spell my Gramma’s name
@@k-vy5nt oh I thought you meant grammar srry
My Dad: grandpa is fine.
My Mom: I’ll let you know when it comes to me. This isn’t a name that is chosen lightly-attention to detail is a must.
Me: are you serious?
Soooo true!! When there are already: grandma, granny, gg, nana, Nona, nanny, mima, Mimi, MeMaw....one must choose carefully!! Nonnie it is....
You’ll understand when you’re older. 😂
@@michellenash6802 don’t forget “Oma” for the German/Dutch roots.
If I'm going to spend the entire second half of my life being called something by what will end up being multiple generations of my family, I'm going to have a say. And don't forget the politics involved. You can't use a name already in use on either side of the kids family, then you have to smile while fighting the other grandmother ( bless her heart) for rights for whatever titles are left. This is tuff stuff
@@GR-bo5zt one of my grandmas was moeka (Dutch)
I love this because my mom wanted my nephew to call her Grammie, but he could never pronounce his Gs and always used Bs instead, so then she was Brammie and loved it. Then though, when he got older, he called her Grammie and she got so upset about it-
I’ve got a few different ones I use. My dad’s mom is Nanna, my mom’s mom is Grandma, my stepdad’s mom is Eita and my other grandmas are just Grandma [First name/Nickname]
my family is very polish so turned the word for grandma in polish “babcia” to a simpler version (for kids cause babcia is a little hard for little kids to pronounce) “buscia”
and my other grandma is mimi cause she wouldn’t respond to any other name (she was a teen mom when she had my mom so she’s younger for a grandma so i’m not surprised she wanted a less “old” sounding name)
When I was first learning to talk I would add "gy" to the end of everything and so I took the "ma" off of grandma and added "gy" and thus Moggy was born.
aww that is cute!
My niece calls her gramma Moggy and grandpa unfortunately became Boggy
I call my grandma “Babuchka” (it’s a Russian thing)
My grandma is “Babo” (Bulgarian)
Why did I go to google translate lol
I called my grandmother "Bubby". She was Czech.
N I K K I I call mine Nëna (Albanian)
In polish we call it “Bapcha” (idk if I spelt it right)
I called my paternal grandma “Granny”. I called my maternal grandmother “Grandma”. Both my grandfathers were “Grandpa”. All my grandparents have since passed on. I was barely 21 when I lost my last grandparent. They were older grandparents when I was born. Both of my parents are the youngest of their siblings.
1:41 "I love you Grammy" 🤦🏼♀️😂😂😂
Mine are just Grandma and Abuelita!
Awsamazing Eden Mine are grandmother and Gma! XD
Mine are Grandmom and grand dad and grandma Kay
Same!!! 😂😂
Same!!!!!
Awsamazing Eden o
It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I learned that not everyone called their grandparents grandma and grandpa. This was shocking to me.
Same here. It was Grandma and Grandpa for my Dad's parents, and then Grandma Bobby for my mom's mom.
Me too! You add a last name or possibly first name and you’re done! That’s how I grew up.
Same here. My dad's parents were "Grandma and Grandpa LastName" and my mom's were "Grandma FirstName and Grandpa FirstName" and the fierce debates and fraught decision making over grandparent names is totally foreign and needlessly ridiculous to me. @@emeff5786
My maternal grandmother is grandmama and my paternal grandmother is Nana. I love them both so dearly and I'm so glad to have them. Nana makes the best food and grandmama is always there to be proud of me and pat me on the back for any little accomplishment. They're both some of the most wonderful people I know and I'm glad I get to know them.
My grandmother went by Grandmother and refused to be called anything else as she saw it as a lack of respect. Lol
So, we called her Grandmommy Dearest behind her back.
My co-worker just became a grandparent. Her husband's Pops and she's Lolli. You got it...and that's how you do it _Texas_ style! ^_^
That's also the name of a candy store in my area. (Lolli and Pops)
Mom Cat22
My friend isn’t from Texas but that’s what she calls one set of grandparents and I think the others are oma and opa
Mom Cat22 , you win for best names !
Both my grandmothers were named Elizabeth. One was country the other city. So I had a "Gramma" and a "Grandmother" They both were always called Ma'am!😄 Love this channel! Bless y'alls hearts.🤗 And God bless grandmothers 💚
Amen to the Ma'am......its a Southern thing for sure.
Both my grandmothers were named Jaqueline!
My grandma is called Elizabeth haha!
My mom had a Grandmother whose name was Daisy Mae and everyone of course called Grandmother. She called my mom Sharon Anne so my mom called her Granny. It was a mutual understanding lol.
that girl in okc I call mine Grandma and the other one nana (insert name)
That was a good Bless Your Heart at the end. The rare sympathy BYH.
You can't trust that granny! Bless her heart she's "knitting" on a crochet blanket...
THIS IS SO ACCURATE IT HURTS
Grandma: my name is Mimi
Grandkids: HEY MEME!
Mimi: 😑
mimi = mi mi
mi mi = me me
me me = meme
That’s my grandma name😄
Could be worse, I got mixed up with the babysitters cat!
Me: call me nana
Babysitters cat: neena
Me: Neenee
I love my grandkids, they can call me whatever they want, it's perfect
I'm a Mimi, too.
I had a Granny and a Grandma. My only granddaughter just called me Grammy which I loved. I had never heard it much before.😊
I laughed so hard at this. My grandson had trouble with Nana so I was Nena for a long time. As I told my son, children will call people what they want, not necessarily what we want.
My grandmas' names are Oba-Chan and Sobo. My family is Japanese, I'm not AT ALL. I'm adopted, I live in Tokyo but I'm from the South.
I got an Obachan!!!
sisi saurus it’s nice in the south.
Awesome
Mine is Obachan too!
obi-wan and solo
In the Philippines, we call our grandmothers, "Lola"
That's quite cool.
Yesssss, or 'Lola Mami' 😂
Saint Hannah Girl named Lola: *it’s free real estate*
Yo plz keep making skits like this. The good ole 5 min era of yt died. This was very refreshing
This is hilarious. I had a Mimi and a Mawmaw. We just called my great grandmother by her name - Bobby. Granddad was Pawpaw. I tried renaming him, didn't work out. 😂
I call my grandmother PopPop because when I was three or so, she visited and had a bag that looked just like Mary Poppins', but I couldn't pronounce it. I continue to say it now because my aunt thinks it's immature and I love making people annoyed by my love
Yes😊
Oh Erin, it's not immature. I'm sure your PopPop Loves it!
My Granddaughter called her only Great Grandma, Papa Barbie. None of us know why she chose to say Papa, but it stuck. Now, even tho she's passed on, we all call her Papa Barbie. 😍
As long as you and PopPop are good with it, doesn’t really matter what your aunt thinks!😜 I always worked hard at especially showing my love to a few family members who are like your aunt, so they see that I’m gonna love them no matter how negative they are… so you go!!!🙏❤️
I love this so much. 🥲
I really like the Meemaw version, but I think that’s because I love the Big Bang theory so much.
ValKyrie OMG SAME
ValKyrie yasssssss
Meemaw's famous brisket
I thought same thing
ValKyrie I was thinking that the entire video! 😂
I had three grandmas, well technically 2 since the third is just my older neighbor who would babysit me when I was a kid and I spent the most time with her. My true biological grandma's were called Grandma and Oma. Easy because one was English/American and the other was German. The two have passed away so all I have left is Grandpa and Opa- although I don't talk to them much either- especially since I never learned German.
I know a woman who took more than a year trying to decide on something that didn't make her sound old. She finally settled on 'sugar', but the baby had already started talking and would only call her 'lady'
My grandma made me call her Grannymama. No granny, nana, nothing.
Just Grannymama
Hetanekoloid15 too long
I like it!
My nephew and niece named their dad's mother "Gragoo." There is nothing worse.
Oh my gosh, lolololol. 😂
My niece renamed my mother, Babbo. That's pretty bad....
Adorable little rascals
Omg ty for the likes
I called my grandparents Gimma and Gampa. My other grandparents were Nana and Papa.
i got:
(grandparents)
- mawmaw & popo
- grammy & pop-pop
- miss cindy & crazy ray
- robert & donna
(great-grandparents)
- old grandma
- aunt barb
They missed nana! My grandmother would be so offended! 🤣