What is your niece's baby to you?

The daughter of your niece is also your niece, but in a second degree. If you have any children, then your niece is their cousin in the first degree, or sister cousin. The daughter of your niece is to your children a second cousin, according to a regular consanguinity chart.
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What is the child of my niece called?

grandniece. noun. a daughter of one's nephew or niece; granddaughter of one's brother or sister. Slang.
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What relationship is my niece's son to me?

a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
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Who is your 2nd cousin?

A second cousin is a someone who shares a great-grandparent with you.
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What is a 1st cousin?

First cousins are the children of siblings. They share a set of grandparents. First cousins are the same generation as each other. They're both two generations away from the grandparents they share. Second cousins are the children of first cousins.
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Is it great niece or grand niece?

A: A “grandniece” and a “great-niece” (also written “great niece”) are the same. So yes, the terms are interchangeable. Similarly, a “grandaunt” is the same as a “great-aunt” (also written “great aunt”).
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Is it grand nephew or great nephew?

Grandnephew definition

The grandson of one's brother or sister; great-nephew. A son of one's nephew or niece.
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Who is a grandniece?

Definition of grandniece

: a granddaughter of one's brother or sister.
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Who is a great grandnephew?

a grandson of one's nephew or niece.
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What relationship is a grandnephew?

Definition of grandnephew

: a grandson of one's brother or sister.
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What do you call your nephew's wife?

niece-in-law (plural nieces-in-law) Someone's nephew's wife.
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Is there such a thing as a grand aunt?

2. The siblings of YOUR grandparents are your granduncle or grandaunt, not great uncle nor great aunt. Similarly, the siblings of YOUR great-grandparents are YOUR great- granduncle or great-grandaunt.
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Can you be a grand aunt?

A great-aunt/grandaunt (sometimes written grand-aunt) is the sister of one's grandparent. Despite the popular usage of great-aunt, genealogists consider it more correct to use grandaunt for a grandparent's sister to avoid confusion with earlier generations.
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Is great-uncle a thing?

A great-uncle/granduncle/grand-uncle is the brother of one's grandparent.
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What is my grandma's sister's daughter called?

Your grandmother's sister's daughter is your parent's first cousin. Therefore: Your grandmother's sister's daughter is your first cousin once removed, because it's once removed from the generation (your parent). Your grandmother's sister's granddaughter is your second cousin.
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Is there such thing as a second uncle?

cousin : uncle :: second cousin : second uncle. The father of your cousin is your uncle, so the father of your second cousin is your second uncle.
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At what point are cousins not related?

Cousins are people who share a common ancestor that is at least 2 generations away, such as a grandparent or great-grandparent. You and your siblings are not cousins because your parents are only 1 generation away from you.
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Are 3rd cousins considered family?

Third cousins are always considered to be relatives from a genealogical perspective, and there is about a 90% chance that third cousins will share DNA.
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Why is it grandmother but great aunt?

Technically, the sister of one of your grandparents is your grand-aunt. "Grand" shows that it is one generation away; "great" is supposed to be added to generations beyond "grand." But like so many other words in the English language, there's the dictionary definition and then there's how it's commonly used.
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Is a niece-in-law a thing?

A niece-in-law or nephew-in-law is the spouse of one's nephew/niece, or the nephew/niece of one's spouse. …
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Is my niece's husband a relative?

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MaxZook said: I would prefer either “niece's husband” or “nephew-in-law” to “nephew”, because the last implies that he's a blood relative.
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Is your nephew's wife considered your niece?

The wife of your nephew has no blood relationship to you. It would be most accurate to refer to her as your nephew's wife. She is also your sibling's daughter-in-law. J.R.
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What is the difference between a second cousin and a first cousin once removed?

So your first cousin once removed is your parent's first cousin, or the child of your first cousin. Your second cousin once removed is the child of your second cousin or the parent of your third cousin.
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What is a half 1st cousin?

Cousins who share one grandparent because their parents are half siblings are half-first-cousins. Cousins who share a set of great-grandparents because their parents are first cousins and their grandparents are siblings are second cousins.
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Is Nibling a real word?

Nibling is a gender-neutral term used to refer to a child of one's sibling as a replacement for "niece" or "nephew". The word is thought to have been coined in the early 1950s, but was relatively obscure for several decades before being revived in recent years.
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