What Do You Name Your Pokemon?, 'Cause I can't find a topic like this already Options

[Crystal Talian]

I was just curious. I always nickname my Pokemon when I play, I like to know what other people name their Pokemon. I also like to know if anyone who plays the games nowadays even bothers (especially people around my age). I couldn't find any topics about this already, so I decided to make my own!

Anyway . . .

Do you name your Pokemon? What do you name them? Why? Any names you really like?

I'll go through a few of my nicknames - I just started some new game files.

I have a charmander named Pepper. I usually name my charmander Firestorm, but this one was a girl so I decided to change things up a bit. I named my chimchar Firestorm instead.

I named my pikachu Jupiter. 'Cause the Roman name for Zeus is Jupiter . . . and he throws lightning bolts!

I totally blanked and ended up calling my mudkip Pisces. Yeah. The fish constellation.

The only other one that comes to mind right now is Artemis, my poochyena. I named it that because it's a dark-type and I associate dark-types with the moon . . . and Artemis is a moon goddess. She's a hunting goddess too, so that works great for poochyena.

[GustafasChild]

I'm always sure to give each and every pokémon I catch a nickname, unless I'm putting it up for trade. In my party right now, I've got:

Fingal - Feraligatr. He was going to be O'Flahertie, but of course, that didn't fit.
Kagemi - Kadabra
Phoenix - Ho-oh
Prancer - Weepinbell. When I caught it as a Bellsprout, I figured it looked like it was prancing, hence Prancer.
Brockling - Golem.
Manry - Pigeot.

Another notable group would be my group of Eevees and their evolutions.
My first Eevee's name is Kuya. I've been thinking of making him a second Umbreon.
Akemi - Espeon
Mizuki - Umbreon
Hino - Flareon
Denki - Jolteon
Umesuke - Vaporeon. I considered Kaito, but Umesuke just made me giggle too much. Plum-esque, almost.
Midori - Leafeon-to-be
Izo - Glaceon-to-be

Other pokémon that come to mind are my Onix named Brocktree, Ditto named Holmes, Growlithe named Watson, Togetic named Watsukiss, and my Caterpie that has yet to become a Butterfree named Tolby. (Plus a bunch of Unowns named after Sherlock Holmes stories such as my OrangePips, Carbuncle, Scarlet, Bachelor, Identity, and TwistedLip.)


EDIT: I should probably explain some of these a bit, I suppose! Fingal came about since I started playing the game around when I began reading a biography for Oscar Wilde. I figured I'd take one of his middle names, and since O'Flahertie didn't fit, Fingal came next.
Kagemi was mostly me putting together sounds into something pretty. At that point I was having fun with -mi names, and I was thinking 'kage' had something to do with shadows and/or reflections or something. Still haven't checked up on that actually, but I liked the name for him nonetheless. (And though it's a made up name as far as I know, I think I could roughly translate it as 'beautiful shadow/reflection/whatever that 'kage' part was.)
Phoenix was probably one of the most uncreative. Perhaps it's an obvious allusion to the Ace Attorney series. (And I just couldn't resist with such a phoenix-like pokémon! And since it comes to mind, I've also got a Pincer named Wright just because I've got a Scyther named Edgeworth.)
Brockling came about after I remembered naming my Onix in Blue Brocktree. At the time, I was simply naming pokémon after Redwall characters, and I realized 'Brock' was in the name Brocktree. Both Onix and Geodude acquired their names because of their relation to Brock, Onix getting the Brocktree because he's more tree-ish, Geodude getting Brockling because he's smaller.
Manry has no actual story for it other than that it makes me chuckle. I also have a Pidgey in Blue named Manry.
Most of my Eevees were named for what they're associated with. Generally they're all names, sounds, or words I think I remember, but I could be wrong about too. Pretty much the same kind of deal as Kagemi. Umesuke is by far the most foolish one, though.
Holmes, Watson, and Watsukiss will be blamed on these two images:
http://feriowind.deviantart.com/art/SH-PKM...7679&qo=151
http://feriowind.deviantart.com/art/SH-PKM...7679&qo=152
Since Watson was to be my Arcanine-to-be, Togepi became Watsukiss. This means Ampharos will probably be John or Doctor, depending.
Tolby was named after our Tolby here at the forums.
And finally, since Unowns are just a bunch of enigmas, I figured I'd just give them names after my favourite mystery stories!

EDIT2: Bah. Kagemi's not a Kadabra. Kagemi's an Alakazam!