Ireland: Seanmháthair is Irish for grandmother, but Irish children are much more likely to use Maimeó or Móraí.
Mimi – If you want to call your grandma “Mama”, then why not shorten it even further and use Mimi! Nan – Another classic name for grandma is Nan. Used in both Scotland and Ireland, it comes from the Gaelic “Nain”.
-Irish: In Gaelic, grandfather is “Seanathair,” which means “old father,” but other popular Irish grandfather names are “Daideó” and “Athair Críonna.” Most English-speaking children call their grandfathers “Grandad” or “Granda.”
Yaya is the word for grandmother in Greek.
Oma is the name for a German grandmother.
-Scottish: In Scottish Gaelic, the word for grandma is “Seanmhair,” which means good mother. But other commonly used Scottish grandmother names include “Nana,” “Nanna,” “Mhamó” and “Mamó.”
Greece: Maybe because it just sounds joyful, the Greek YaYa is a popular grandmother nickname. It's sometimes hyphenated and sometimes rendered as YiaYia.
A new survey shows that the most popular terms for grandparents in Britain are 'Nan' and 'Grandad' Published: October 31, 2022 at 2:00 pm.
The word for grandmother in Italian is nonna whereas the plural is nonne. Similar to English which has multiple terms for grandmother including grandma, granny, gran and so on, you may also come across some dialectal variations on nonna depending on where you live.
Irish names for grandparents have not been widely adopted by the non-Irish, as the German Oma or the Italian Nonna have been, probably due to the difficulties of spelling and pronunciation. In fact, most Irish children call their grandmothers Granny, Grandma, or Nana, sometimes spelled Nanna.
"Mam" is the most popular form of address for mothers in Ireland. Some 31 per cent of adults call their mother "Mam" when speaking to her, 23 per cent prefer "Mum", 12 per cent say "Mom" and a further 12 per cent use "Mammy". Another 4 per cent of respondents call their mothers by their first name.
question: What do you call your grandmother in Australia? I called both of my grandmothers' Nanna. My grandchildren call me Grandma and my son's children call their maternal grandmother Babaa. Her children called their paternal grandmother Nanna and their maternal grandmother Grammy.
Our three daughters — since they were wee little ones — have referred to Hedy's mother and father by the accepted Dutch grandparent nomenclature: oma and opa. That's also the convention in Germany and parts of Belgium.
The most commonly used Filipino word for grandfather is lolo. (lola means grandmother.) Sa tuhod is added to indicate a great-grandparent: lolo sa tuhod and lola sa tuhod. Lolo and lola are sometimes used as grandparent nicknames by those not of Filipino heritage, because of their ease of pronunciation and spelling.
Depending on where you live in Wales, there are different ways of saying “grandmother” in Welsh. If you call North Wales your home, the most common word you'll hear is nain while South Walians prefer the cute-sounding mam-gu (pronounced maam-gee).
Most common in England are probably: gran'dad and gramma, grandpa and Grammy, grand papa and grand mama, gramps and gran. In Wales add taid and nain in the north, and tadgu and mamgu in the south.
And if you live in the south, there's a good chance you call your grandmother Mamaw or Mawmaw—the most popular nickname in 7 states mostly in the south and along the Appalachians. Texas is the lone holdout for Mimi while folks in the Northeast prefer Grammie or Nana. But let's not forget the grandpas!
Grandparents, or besteforeldre in Norwegian, can be called bestemor (grandmother) or bestefar (grandfather). Still, it's probably more common to hear the slightly shorter but more specific, combination of mor (mother) and far (father) used in four different variations, a unique one for each grandparent.
Names for Grandma in German
The most common name the Germans use when they address their grandmothers is (die) Oma. Its pronunciation is [ˈˈoːma] in the IPA transcription.
Noun. yaya. (sometimes derogatory) a nanny. an address to one's nanny.