What to call a grandfather?

Poppy was my Grandad's name. My OH was supposed to be Grandpa to our DDG, but she has just started to talk and calls him Papa, which I absolutely love.

We called our grandad Pop Pop. my cousin who is the eldest started calling him that when he was tiny and the rest of us just followed suit. When we were older we called him Pop. Grandmother was called Nanny. In cards they always used to put from Nan and Pop. I am called nanny and then my Christian name as is the other grandmother. Ditto for the grandads. Grandad Jxxx and grandad Pxxx

There seem to be rather a lot of grumpy grandads!
DH gets called Victor sometimes (not by the DGC as they are too young to know who Victor is!).

There seem to be rather a lot of grumpy grandads!

We are Nanna and GG (grumpy grandad)

My late husband and his dad before him were called Pops by all the grandchildren. Sometimes Popsy by the little ones

My GC have 8 GPs, thanks to divorce and remarriage, so finding names for us all has been interesting! I'm Oma and the others use a combination of Grandma+name, Grandad+name or Grandpa+name.

To both, I am Nanna and DH is known by his Christian name. When my own kids were born, my father insisted on being called by his Christian name (Pat - nice and easy!). There, too, my mother was always Nanna.

We still haven't found a name for the kids to call my mother, their great-grandmother.

My grandparents were Granny and Granddad and Nanny and Hossie ( Horace)

To my own grandkids I m Nana and now they re older Nan, to the ones that have another Nana I was Nana plus my name

Two of my grandkids have a Nana and Pops for their other grandparents and the three with Belgian 'other' grandparents are Oma and Opa

Mamy & Papy (French version)

I'm called BonBon and my husband Grandpa

In some fishing villages in NE Scotland, a grandfather is 'Dide'.

DH is Granda, common here in NE Scotland.

I banana but by husband is grumpy ( and he is grumpy) ???????

Gaga!

My GSN could not say grumpy so it merged into Pappy so all the GC call him that,but the older ones now call him Paps it sounds very affectionate.

We had this problem too. In the end they settled on calling us both Grandma and Grandad with the addition of our Christian names. It has pleased everyone....and the children know immediately who they are talking to on the 'phone.

Youngest GD (19 months) can say something that sounds like grandma for me, but calls my OH dad. Her father is daddy. Caused a little confusion at first!

My husband is called Pop Pop as was his grandfather........ All the grandchildren and their friends call him Pop Pop.

Congratulations granahoy Such a wonderful time for you.

In out family we are Bubbe (yiddush) and Saba (hebrew). Just because!! I wanted something that would be easy for the little'uns to say and different to their other GPs

Whatever you like... The little one will come up with their own version of it anyway, which will probably stick. :-)

GS2 remarked, 'Grandad is funny and sometimes grumpy'. The other Grandad is known as 'Grandpa'. Once when I picked up my GD from school, the teacher said, 'Here's Granny to pick you up'. GD corrected her, 'That's not Granny, that's Grandma'. They're so funny, aren't they?

Grampie works for me and my five grandkids.

...and they call the other grandfather Gramps.

When he was just starting to talk, GS1 [son of DS2] decided my DH was "Das" for some reason. His other granddad is "HarryDas"! My DD hates "Das" so DH is Granddad to them.
My Granny was horrible so that was last thing I wanted to be called, and my other GM was "Meregrand"; which I didn't really want. So I'm "Grandma" - a compromise for "Grandmere" which would have been my preferred option.
I think unless one is very fussy, one takes the name one is given by the child.

My maternal Grandparents were, Nanny and Dampty. The latter being a corruption of Grampy which my older sister couldn't pronounce when she was little. My Paternal Grandparents were, Granny (up the garden), our houses backed each other so that was logical, and Dan-Dan, again because my sister couldn't manage Grandad when very little. The thing is, the first thing the little one begins calling you, is often the nicest, and most characterful. This is why I'm Ganny, and I love it!