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My first time playing original gold I had my cousin who was in her teens at the time name him for me, "Wexwert" and I just continued to use that name for all of my rivals unless I'm doing something special.
I usually name him the first thing that comes to mind, but on my very first playthrough i went with silver. Some other names i remember giving him are Bobby or Pedro
Most of the time I name him after a friend of mine, or after one of my siblings, to really heat up our sibling rivalry. I know for a fact that my younger brother named his rival Nick in GSC before. XD
I don't remember what I named him. I probably did name him something rather foul at least once, because, much as I like Silver, he really is probably the most blatantly asinine of the rivals.
Silver because that was his official name and felt right! I used to go with silly names even going as far as naming my rival "Stupid" one time but grew out of that phase and prefer the originals now.. Silver was just too fitting.
Originally I named him Chad, because it seems like a lot of the time people named Chad are rather mean. (No offense to anyone named Chad, that's not always the case. Well, except if you ARE mean, then totally offense.)
I usually named him Silver, just because I thought it would be cool to have Silver officially in the game. He is one of my favorite Dex Holders, after all.
Sometimes though, I strayed and named him "Arse" or something much worse.
I named him after my brother, like I usually do. He names his rival after me, so it's not like I'm just making him the villain myself, haha. I was tempted to name him Silver, but felt it was a little unoriginal.