What do you nickname your Pokemon?

Started by KipKipFox August 16th, 2016 4:43 PM
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Posted November 3rd, 2016
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Do you nickname your pokemon? If so, what do you call them? Do you call them something that matches it's appearance or type? It do you just give it something that sounds cool and fitting?

Here's what I personally named my pokemon:
Spoiler:

Serperior, "Ivy"(snIVY)

Reshiram, "Aaron" (the first word that popped to mind was "air." Reshiram seems to reflect the air element well. What name sounds like air? Aaron.)

Cobalion, "Lucky" (first legendary I ever caught. I felt lucky about it.)

Virizion, "Gazelle" (it looks like one.)

Delphox, "Ember" (fire-type)

Aurorus, "Aura" (it's already part of the original name)

Xerneas, "Lights" (honestly, the little gems on its antlers look like Christmas lights.)

Pikachu, "Seiko" (honestly my Cosplay Pikachu reminded me of a obnoxious. Anime character... and the first one that comes to mind is Seiko Shinohara.)

"Sapphire" the Kyogre, "Emerald" the Rayquaza (aww come on, you know why.)

Layla the Charizard, Liu the Lucario, Drake the Sceptile, Joanie the Mightyena, Mitch the Breloom, Tessa the Swellow, Serenity the Latias (just sounds fitting)



What about yours? :0

Tewi

Хорошо

Age 24
Male
Argentina
Seen September 28th, 2021
Posted August 16th, 2016
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7.2 Years
I usually call my starter either Kuro (if male) or Tewi (if female). Beyond that, i usually name my team poke's after Touhou characters or just uncap their name. Oh yeah, and the usual Pikachu > Pika.
Oh, i remember calling my starter after the rival's name too.

Lunar

Age 24
Male
England
Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
I usually call my Pokemon a name related to them, for example, I recently had a Slowbro called Mercury because when a Shellder bites onto a Slowpoke's tail it injects poison into it, and well Mercury is a type of poison so that's what I named it. And I tend to look into similar things for different Pokemon to get their nicknames. Otherwise I'll just name them after Anime characters :)

Judge Mandolore Shepard

Spectre Agent

Age 35
Male
Marysville, Washington State, United States
Seen March 1st, 2018
Posted March 1st, 2018
9,433 posts
9.2 Years
When I nickname my Pokemon I tend to make sure that the Pokemon in my teams have nicknames that fall under a theme. Here are examples of nicknames I have used for the leaders of each of my teams:

Delta (Blastoise)(Leader of my Star Wars Republic Commando Squads team in Blue)(reference: Delta Squad from Star Wars Republic Commando)
Galvatron (Feraligatr)(Leader of my Decepticons team in Soul Silver)(reference: G1 Galvatron from Transformers)
Revan (Swampert)(Leader of my Star Wars Sith Lords team in Sapphire)(reference: Darth Revan from Star Wars KotOR)
Napoleon (Empoleon)(Leader of my World Leaders team in Platinum)(reference: Napoleon Bonaparte)
Durendal (Samurott)(Leader of my Legendary Weapons team in White)(reference: Durendal from The Song of Roland)
John Rambo (Samurott)(Leader of my Anti-Heroes team in White 2)(reference: John Rambo from the Rambo movies)
Enterprise (Greninja)(Leader of my World War II Ships team in X)(reference: American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-6)
Luke (Swampert)(Leader of my Star Wars Jedi team in Alpha Sapphire)(reference: Luke Skywalker from Star Wars)
Garland (Blastoise)(Leader of my Final Fantasy Villains team in Blue (eShop release version))(reference: Garland from the first Final Fantasy game)
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#TeamPopplio
Age 32
Male
United Kingdom
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Posted December 13th, 2022
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8.2 Years
I try and be creative with nicknaming. For example, I always thought Chesnaught was based on bigfoot, or at least looked a bit like a bigfoot, so I named mine Grassquatch. My other favourite thing to do is come up with anagrams as nicknames. E.g. Daniel the Ledian, Karma Pig the Magikarp and .... well I don't think I can publish my Crawdaunt anagram.

Hikarin

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Male
A place?
Seen February 7th, 2017
Posted September 11th, 2016
72 posts
6.8 Years
I like to give my starter and other similarly-attached Pokemon names like real people, such as "Billy" or "Sean", but I'll always make a point to name a well-bred female Eevee "Hikari" or "Kuroko" depending on if I evolve her into a Sylveon or an Umbreon, respectively.

Socratic

Howdy

Male
Hoenn
Seen September 15th, 2022
Posted August 19th, 2016
462 posts
6.8 Years
I will either do a punny name, such as Skipper for a Mudkip, or a name that starts with the first 2+ letters of the real name, such as a Barboach named Barbara. I like doing each of these within their own games, however. One or the other in a single game :P
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kingdenas

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Male
Lisboa, Portugal
Seen January 9th, 2021
Posted October 24th, 2019
1,707 posts
8.4 Years
I don't nickname my Pokémon. Not because I don't want to, but because I can't think of ANYTHING when they ask me to nickname one of my Pokémon. That makes me a bit sad, because by nicknaming them, you feel more connected with them, right? My problem is just creativity :C
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Kabocha❤

Feeling sleepy...

Age 20
Female
My own little world.
Seen May 13th, 2019
Posted May 13th, 2019
222 posts
6.9 Years
I normally think of a theme or whatever pops into my head, my current Gaia team is:
Eggplant the Donphan.
Radish the Grotle.
Squash the Pumpkaboo.
Salad the Munna.
Spooky egg that I do not know the contents of.

Juno

OK I PULL UP

Age 28
Female
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4,561 posts
9.5 Years
I usually name them after Greek gods. I think it's a really cute and cool way to give them an interesting name, used themed around what the god does. I'm not one for giving them human names, haha.
I do the same thing! Default naming scheme is usually Greek/Roman gods that fit with the type/aesthetic of the Pokémon, like I remember I had a Lucario named Kratos (god of war) in X and Poseidon the Lapras (god of sea).

Other times, my Pokémon are just named after characters that they resemble in some way or share common traits with - I restarted AS recently and my current team has:

- Arryn the Swellow, named after the house in Game of Thrones whose sigil is a blue falcon
- Grey Wind the Mightyena, named after a direwolf in Game of Thrones
- Ragnaros the Combusken, named after the Firelord in Hearthstone/World of Warcraft

Those are the ones I cared to name so far anyway - I usually only nickname the Pokémon I intend to keep on my team for a while. I dunno, naming them after things I love kind of make me love the Pokémon more too, haha.

blue

gucci

Male
United Kingdom
Seen September 26th, 2021
Posted August 7th, 2019
21,056 posts
15.4 Years
I don't nicnkame my Pokemon unless I'm doing a challenge run. For some reason I'm not really that creative when it comes to choosing names and I can never think of suitable nicknames for my team. :x
Age 32
Male
United Kingdom
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8.2 Years
My current naming theme in an AS playthrough is Jungle Book characters.

Swampert - Bagheera (Looks nothing like a panther, granted, but it suits him)
Seviper - Kaa
Swellow - Rann
Mightyena - Akela
Vigoroth - King Louie

Not got my full team yet, but I really want a Raikou called Shere Khan. {XD}

Flowerchild

> failure to launch

Age 24
She/Her
Hyperspace
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Posted July 7th, 2022
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13 Years
I don't have a naming scheme, really, and most of my nicknames are just random and nonsensical. Some other fraction of them are memes, bizarre references or a vaguely related word. Let's look at my teams in X&OR for a sec.

Chesnaught "Shrub Rat"
Blastoise "side ho"
Lucario "evolveonly"
Sigilyph "mystic"
Simisear "002"
Ditto "you irl"
Mewtwo "ITHAPPENED"
Charizard "burning KE"
Bellossom "we are grown"
Swellow "Landsrop"

I think that's enough nonsense syllables.
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Sheep

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Australia
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16.6 Years
I used to nickname mine after friends or food/desserts but found I ran out of names quickly so I stopped. It bothers me a bit when some of my Pokémon are nicknamed but not the rest so I decided to leave them as it is, especially since they're no longer in ALLCAPS. That drove me insane. @[email protected]'

Altairis

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Female
database database
Seen December 29th, 2022
Posted October 5th, 2018
5,170 posts
11 Years
I like to name my Pokemon after something that is sort of reminiscent of their type... sometimes it's kind of random. I don't really use human names or stuff that makes sense sometimes.

I always nickname my Pokemon, so I have a lot of examples... just a few might be Minuet for Lilligant (after Minuet of Forest in Zelda), Toph for Flygon (Ground-type character from Avatar), Nixie for Jellicent (water spirits)... I really like those names, but I've been kinda random with my more recent names. Like Asa for female Unfezant (means morning in Japanese and I'm always woken up by chirping now), Felicia for Cinccino (name of a maid from Fire Emblem... reminded me because Minccino was in an anime episode where it was obsessed with cleaning), Ruby for Flareon (just because it's red D:)

I need to get some better ones, haha.

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Zervais

Island Kahuna

Age 28
Male
Norfolk, England
Seen December 23rd, 2016
Posted November 15th, 2016
258 posts
6.7 Years
I always have a Vaporeon named Ahuizotl.

Spoiler:
The ahuizotl (from the Nahuatl āhuitzotl for "spiny aquatic thing") is a legendary creature in Aztec myth. The creature is described as dog-like, its waterproof fur often clumping up to create spikes (hence its name). The ahuizotl has hands capable of manipulation and an additional hand on its tail.


I also had a shiny Espeon I named Lime.

Sopheria

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Seen July 19th, 2022
Posted December 17th, 2017
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9.5 Years
I normally just name my Pokes whatever pops into my head, which can sometimes totally random. In my current Blue playthrough, I named my starter Bulbasaur Akihabara, both because I'm an anime nerdy and also because Akihabara means "field of autumn leaves". Then on the other hand, I have a Nidoran male that I named Carlos, because it just popped into my head as something to call it :3 So yea, my nicknames are sorta all over the place.
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