Children usually address their parents with different titles as they (the children, obviously) age. Do older grandchildren who started out calling their grandparents by the more “cutesy” titles (PopPop, Mimi etc.) keep it up, or choose new nicknames?
My family doesn’t use titles, and never has, but I’m interested in hearing how you folks do things in your family.
I only knew my paternal grandparents growing up – my maternal grandparents passed away at relatively young ages. I just went with “Grandma” and “Grandpa”.
My children, intrestingly enough, have differing names for their four grandparents and two great-grandparents. My wife’s parents are “Grandpa” and “Gigi” (my mother-in-law doesn’t like “Grandma”); while my parents are “Nana” and “Poppa” (picked up from my nephews’ usage). My wife’s maternal grandfather is “Paw-paw” to the kids, and her paternal grandmother is “Maw-,maw”.
We called my maternal grandparents grandma and grandpa. Mom’s mom was grandma. We called her husband Bud. Odd, I never even knew his real first name, but he never went by it.
My brother once asked our great grandmother what we should call her. “Grandma, great grandma, or what?” She replied “Oh, just grandma.” From that point on she was Just Grandma.
My father’s mother was Grammy and my mother’s mother was Grammaw. Both of my grandfathers died when I was too young to really remember them.
tdn, we had a friend who was know to his numerous grand- and great grandchildren as J.P., because he told them to call him Just Plain Ed.
Both grandmothers were simply “mamie de X” and “mamie de Y” (i.e. grandma who lives in X). They still are, even though one of them doesn’t live in Y anymore. Same goes for grandfathers : they were “papy de X” and “papy de Y”. We’re simple folks 
We called them “Grandmom” and “Grandpop.” We were the only ones I knew who used those names (I grew up in the Rocky Mtns). I assumed it was an east coast thing since my dad is originally from NJ, but I’m not sure.
Great-grandparents were Great-Grandma, Great-Grandpa and Great Nana. Grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa and Nana and Granddad (Nana and Pop-pop to the cousins). We stuck with those throughout their lives, although sometimes we would refer to G-Nana amongst ourselves.
The ones that did change were for my parents. They raised us to call them Mama and Papa but along the way we changed Papa to Pop, and Mama to Ma/Mom.
Heh.
Before I heard about why we called her Just Grandma, I assumed it was because she lived alone. As in “Who lives in that house?” “Just Grandma.”
I think at one point I may have assumed that it was because she was so fair and even-handed.
On my dad’s side, MomMom and PopPop. On my mom’s side, Grandmom. I never met my grandfather on my mom’s side; oddly enough, he’s the only one of the four who’s (as far as I know) still living.
For me it was always grandma/grandpa [name] when refering to them, and just grandma/grandpa when talking to them, but the name we used to refer to them depended on which set it was.
Paternal grandparents were grandma [first name] and grandpa [old nickname that everyone knew him by]
Maternal grandparents were grandma/grandpa [last name]
Step-paternal grandparents were grandma and grandpa [first name]
Step-maternal grandparents were grandma and grandpa [last name]
(Both parents had remarried before I was 2, so I’ve had an abundance of grandparents for most of my life)
Not sure how or why these naming conventions came about, but thats the way it ended up.
gramma and grampa
Both my grandmothers were Grammy.
My maternal grandmother re-married after my grandfather died (I never knew him.) Her husband was Grandpa Pat or just “Pat” (he never signed any of our cards as anything but “Pat”)
My own mother prefers Grandmama (which always sounds so stuffy to me.) My father, when he was still alive, was called Grandpa.
My nieces & nephews have all sorts of names for their grandparents - Vava and Vovo, Mama and Papa, Nana and Grampy.
I don’t have any children - guess I’ll never have to worry about that!
Well, I always had to have different names for my grandparents, especially the grandmothers. They are all deceased today, but even as an adult, I called (or still call if I happen to mention them) my maternal grandmother Memaw and my paternal grandmother Nana*. My only great-grandmother was Great-Memaw, even though she was Memaw’s mother-in-law.
I use various names for my grandfathers. Grandpa, Granddad, Papa (accent on the last a) , and at times each referred to different person, but, usually, if clarity is needed, I use their last names. This includes my great-grandfather (maternal-maternal), who I rarely called “great-grandpa”, unless I was trying to be formal.
*Nana was how I said grandma as a baby, and it was retroactively used by the rest of the family. Memaw was just what Memaw liked to be called.
Mom’s side: Nana and PopPop
Dad’s side: Grandma firstname and Grandpa firstname
Interestingly, we called my mom’s grandmother “Gate Gammas”. It never struck me as being short for “great grandmother” until I was an adult (well after she had died).
I only knew one grandparent, but he and his deceased wife were Pop Pop and Bun Bun. MY kids call(ed) my parents Grammy and Pop Pop, and my wife’s Mom is Nanna.
My Mom’s parents were Grandma and Grandpa. My Dad’s parents were Nana and Grandpa.
Nana died a little over three weeks ago, and it really didn’t occur to me until right now that I don’t have any grandparents anymore. Weird.
For the grandparents it’s Papa (or Poppa depending on who’s spelling it) followed by the person’s name.
For grandmother it was Bubbe on one side and Mimi on the other. Apparently we’ve been calling the grandmother on this side Mimi going back four generations now. I think my Great-Great grandmother was named Mimi and the name somehow stuck for all grandmothers down the line to my mom.
The only ones I knew were my maternal grandfather, “Grandpa,” and my paternal grandmother, “Grandma” . . . who were married to each other.
I only ever met my maternal grandmother and all her grandchildren called her Granny.
I called my dad’s dad by his given name (which is also mine) because I never met him, but after my dad gave me a death glare, I now refer to him as Grandpa whenever he comes up in conversation.
One side was plain 'ol Grandma and Grandpa other side was Mam-maw and Pap-pap.