Naming!

[cheyinka]

So I was curious about how other people name their Pokémon. I've had little luck getting anything nicknamed off the GTS or Wonder Trade, even with asking for a nickname in the message box in X. On the other hand, I see people elsewhere giving their Pokémon really clever names, while I end up usually having a clever name for my starter and then just going with boring things like "Grassasaurus" for Bulbasaur or "Fairy-Gem ♦" for my Carbink.

What do the rest of you do? :)

(the Bellsprout I carry in my Pokéwalker is named Leafy Belle; I can't decide if that's clever or boring.)

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[babycharmander]

I mostly just go with whatever comes to mind--sometimes it's puns, sometimes it's adjectives, sometimes it's real names... sometimes it's special things. Like, in Y, I named my Charmander "Charcolt" (and if I had a Bulbasaur it would be "Sapusaur" and a Squirtle would be "Rainer") because THAT IS WHAT THE MEGA-EVOLUTIONS ARE AND NO-ONE WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. And back when I got White 2, I caught a Magnemite early on, and, since I was on a Portal kick (and still am), I caved and named him Wheatley and he became one of the strongest Pokemon on my team.

I also have these two Pokemon all the way from my first playthrough of FireRed and I keep moving them up to the new games--Esther the Charizard (named after a Charizard character of mine) and an unnamed Dragonite. But when talking about them, I usually call them Lady Esther and Lord Dragonite, because they're very old and very special to me.

Anyway, I have done name themes a few times. In my first SoulSilver run I gave all my Pokemon Biblical names (Joseph the Typhlosion, Silas the Dunsparce, Anna the Ampharos, Jael the Slowbro, Rahab the Butterfree, and Solomon the Victreebel), resulting in a LOT of obscure names being used for hatchlings. If you ever got a Charmander with a Hebrew name from the GTS, that was probably one of mine. In White, I named all of my Pokemon after literary characters! I had Snowball the Emboar, Dantes the Braviary, Mercedes the Eelectross, and... gosh I can't remember the other ones, but most of them were characters from The Count of Monte Cristo. XD;;

I wanna say I did another naming theme once but I don't remember what it was. But there you are.