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Grandparent nicknames

What Are The Most Popular Grandparent Names?


According to Babycenter.com, the following are the most popular grandparent names.

If you’d like to add your grandparent nickname to our list, just click here. Sometimes we get to decide our GRANDparent names. More often, an infant or toddler decides what we will be called for the rest our lives. We may want to be called grandma or grandpa, but we also have many other choices.

Nana

Grammy

Granny

Mimi

Gram

Nanny

Oma

Mamaw

Gran

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Popular grandfather names

Grandpa

Papa

Granddad

Gramps

Pop-Pop

Poppy

Papaw

Pop

Opa

Pappy

If you’re looking for more fun grandparent nicknames, check these out

Fun nicknames for grandma

  • Big Bubba.
  • Bunny
  • Cookie
  • Darling
  • Gabby
  • Honey
  • Hu Hu
  • Jamma
  • Mamabear
  • Mamacita
  • Momo
  • Momsy
  • Nooni
  • Snuggums
  • Tootsie
  • Unni

Fun nicknames for grandpa

  • Bebop
  • Big Daddy
  • BigD
  • Bo
  • Dadsy
  • DooDad
  • Doody
  • GoPa
  • Grampsy
  • Granpup
  • Hee Haw
  • Huggy
  • PePop
  • TeePa
  • UmPaPa

Trendy GRANDparent names for grandmoms

  • Bamma
  • Birdie
  • Foxy
  • GaGa
  • GG
  • GeezerGirl
  • GeeMa
  • “My daughter Avery calls her grandmother Glamma,” reveals Kaarsten Weber Arrowbear of Lake, California.
  • Glammy
  • Lola
  • Mammi
  • MayMay
  • MeMom
  • MomMom
  • NotherMother

Trendy GRANDparent names for granddads

  • Ace
  • BigBop
  • Bubba
  • “Our grandkids call my husband DADA. Sounds funny now coming from a 12-year-old,” says Pamela Haven of Bentonville, Arizona.
  • Dappa
  • G-Daddy
  • Geezer Guy
  • Grandaddy
  • Napa
  • Papi
  • Papster
  • PeePaw
  • Popo
  • Popzie
  • Umpa


Christine Crosby

About the author

Christine is the co-founder and editorial director for GRAND Magazine. She is the grandmother of five and great-grandmom (aka Grandmere) to one. She makes her home in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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