![]() ![]() I think this is done quite often in the Netherlands? In the 50's and 60's (great)grandmothers were sometimes called things like 'moeder Roos', 'moeder Nel' (mother Rose, mother Nel, with their first name). If they do use the same words for their 2 pairs of grandparents, they may add their last name to distinguish them if need be: 'opa Jacobs', 'oma Janssens' etc. moemoe & vava (pronounced like /mu'mu:/ and /vɔ'vɔ:/ if I'm correct, I'm no good at IPA): very old-fashioned, these were used for grandparents until the mid-sixties or so. Obviously new creations based on the first 2 pairs. omi & opi, bommi & bompi: I've heard these ones lately, but they still sound strange to me. mammie & pappie: a variation of the usual words for mum and dad ( mama & papa), sometimes used for the grandparents instead. People who call their grandparents that way will of course continue to do so, but I don't hear any young kids doing so. mémé & pépé: also from French, these were fashionable in the eighties and early nineties but not anymore. moeke & vake: these were old words for mum and dad, but now that they're not used much in that sense anymore they usually mean grandma and grandpa instead. bomma & bompa: from French 'bonne-maman' and 'bon-papa', these are very common as well. oma & opa: the most common Dutch words for 'grandma' and 'grandpa' respectively. Examples (only the first couple is used in the Netherlands as well, afaik): ![]() In Flemish Dutch, we don't have specific words for them but we do have a variety of general words for 'grandma' and 'grandpa', so kids often give one set of names to their paternal grandparents and another to the maternal ones, to distinguish them. Of course there will be a way to describe this, like 'paternal grandmother' in English, but you don't use that in daily speech, let alone when speaking to that grandmother Here are some cute grandparent names to choose from that are unique, fun, and will sound adorable when you hear your kids say them (or, you know, shout them when they see their grandparent pull into the driveway).In your language, do you have a way to distinguish between your paternal and maternal grandparents? Most languages don't have different words for them as far as I know, except in Scandinavian languages (mormor, farmor, etc: do you use these words when speaking to them?). So don’t be surprised if your kids conjure up their own adorable nicknames. My mom wanted my twin nephews to call her “Naani Mom," but they turned it into “Nammo," which she loves just as much. That being said, kids have a tendency to make up their own nicknames, despite what you drill in to them. My mom wanted to be cute, so she has my kids call her “Naano," and my father just ended up being “Excuse Me Dada” because he would always mess with the kids by saying “excuse me.” For a mom’s parents, the names are Nana (grandpa) and Naani (grandpa), and for the dad’s parents the names are Dada (grandpa) and Daadi (grandma). In my family’s language, Urdu/Hindi, maternal and fraternal grandparents have distinguishing titles. My family is of Indian origin, so family nicknames are derived from the culture. So if you are looking for unique names for your kids to call their grandparents, look no further than this list of 15 names that aren't grandma and grandpa. It’s an important relationship, the one between grandparent and grandchild, and it deserves great attention and detail, even when it comes to names. They had their grandfather and grandmother names ready, as if they had been secretly planning what my kids would call them my whole life. When my first child was born, I remember my parents being adamant on what she would call them.
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