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I knew a guy who nicknamed his Empoleon " J. Stalin", his Tropius "Fidel C." and his Spinda "Mao Z."
 
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After restarting platinum the other day, this is my team...

Crobat- Iroh (Named after Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender, hahaha)
Prinplup- Dax (DAH-CKS Kind of an inside joke i guess)
Houndoom- Han (An OC I often use, hes german!)
Gallade- Celest (10 points to whoever gets that reference)
Luxray- Diego (From Ice Age)
Gabite- Omni (Really don't know why, it was an option in my 3ds max software :p)
 
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this is my heartgold team:
Typhlosion(m) called Singe
Kanghaskan called Kanga... i know imaginative name.
Dragonair(f) called Elegance
Honchkrow(f) called Morgana. iv been watching merlin lately. :p
Nidoking called Nick
Zangoose (f) called Tosaka. Shes my fav character from Fate/stay night.
Mightyena(f) called Shenzi from the lion king. ^^
Manectric (f) called Mandy
And a Voltorb called Amperes. Im an electrical apprentice.:banana:
 
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I name my Pokemon after what their actual name is, like
Budew- Greenie
Shroomish-Shrooms(approved by official nickname rater in Sinnoh!)
Hoppip-Cute

other times i just write their names in lowercase letters(LAME!)
SHINX- Shinx
ROSELIA- Roselia
ARTICUNO-Articuno
 
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only my elites are nicknamed.

Jonteir-Typhlosion
Grace-Skarmory
Jackario-Blastoise
Markani-Lucario
Fravir-Gallade
and my prized pokemon
Saratonia-Gardevoir. Saratonia means Beautiful Princess :3
 
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ohwow! Those do seem like complicated nicknames! X)
Mine are much simpler. But I'm glad to see someone who puts thought into naming their Pokemon.
Usually, I name my Pokemon whatever name comes to mind, and build their personality off of that name.
 
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I name my pokemon other differebt types of pokemon
Psyduck- Abra
Togekiss- Psyduck
Fearaligatr- Craniados
Poliwhirl- Arbok
 
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I have a long list of Pokémon with nicknames... (I could benefit from some training time to get a lot of these guys up to 100). The names are all in uppercase in-game.

Blastoise - Dominic (Possibly from a character in Megatokyo, don't really remember)
Ninetales - Mozilla (Get it? Firefox? Okay, quit throwing things)
Persian - Lucas (No definite origin to this one)
Magneton - Ziodyne (from the spell in Persona 3)
Marowak - Gospel (from Bass' support character in Megaman, also appropriate for the species)
Hitmonlee - Kiyo (from the Karate King of Mt. Mortar)
Starmie - Rayne (corruption of "rain", spelling from the Firefly character Jayne)
Vaporeon - Mist (a water-based name)
Jolteon - Sanae (from a character in CLANNAD)
Kabutops - Lynn (from a character in Fire Emblem)
Snorlax - Nayuki (from a character in Kanon)
Dragonair - Serenity (from the ship in Firefly)
Meganium - Koizumi (from a character in the Suzumiya Haruhi series)
Typhlosion - Kaoruko (from a character in the Pokémon anime)
Furret - Kiera (from a character in Jak & Daxter)
Ampharos - Blitz (an electric-sounding name)
Espeon - Simon (from a character in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)
Umbreon - Tomoya (from a character in CLANNAD)
Steelix - Titan (massive species...)
Scizor - Magnum (from a type of ammunition/weaponry)
Mantine - Kite (from the Pokédex's designation as "Kite Pokémon")
Blaziken - Torch (a fire-based name)
Mightyena - Jenny (from a real-life friend)
Swellow - Yuuko (from a character in ef - A Tale of the Two)
Gardevoir - L'nari (from the alias of a previous 'net friend)
Slaking - DK (Donkey Kong. 'nuff said.)
Delcatty - Kyra Lynn (named by a friend)
Aggron - Maiza (from a character in Baccano!)
Sharpedo - Owen (named by a friend)
Camerupt - Camden (named by a friend)
Spinda - KumaKuma ("Kuma" being roughly Japanese for "bear)
Flygon - Melody (supposedly the species makes music with its wing beats)
Absol - Shadow (a name befitting a dark-type)
Metang - Vector (a tech-sounding name)
Metagross - Hitomi (from the character in the 7th Pokémon Movie)
Torterra - Gaia (Greek goddess of earth)
Empoleon - Ted (from the penguin character in Ctrl+Alt+Del)
Bronzor - Izzy (from a character in the Digimon anime)
Lucario - Rei (from a character in Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Weavile - Saul (from a biblical Pharisee and persecutor-turned-prophet)
Electivire - Buzz (an electric-sounding name)
Leafeon - Yutaka (from a minor character in Megatokyo)
Rotom - Amp (from an electrical device)
Gallade - Inigo (from the character in The Princess Bride)


And many more to come. If it counts, I intend on using a team of three when I get White version and naming them after the three biblical Wise Men (Balthazar, Melchior and Casper)
 
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Ninetales - Mozilla (Get it? Firefox? Okay, quit throwing things)

^This one is full of awesomeness :lol:

Wow, you're already thinking ahead into your Fifth Gen team.
 
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~My Suicune is Unibrow. :3
~Gengar is King Boo.
~Gligar is Jabberwock.
~Mamoswine is Popo. It's named after a herbivore from Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, which I think looks like it (Popo: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100412060808/monsterhunter/images/a/af/Popo-Compare.png and Mamoswine: http://pokedream.com/pokerep/images/sugimori/473.jpg ...see the resemblance? hehe)
~Ampharos is Balbriggan, which is by definition: A fine cotton mainly used for underwear.
~A Miltank named Bodewash (means cow dung >_<)
... there are more but I'll stop there for now. ^.^
 
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I always name the Pokemon I use on my main team after the Japanese name of that Pokemon or the Japanese name of something in it's evolutionary family, for example, my HeartGold team:

Rashi(F)-Typhlosion
Ozuku(F)-Noctowl
Moko(F)-Ampharos
Nouh(F)-Quagsire
Eifie(F)-Espeon

Every other Pokemon I catch just gets a completely random nickname.
 
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My first party:
Typhlosion- Pyrous- Cross b/w "pyro" and "nitrous"
Espeon- Solaris- refers to the root "solar" meaning sun.
Lugia- Aerodemon- My fav pkmn and this nickname has no meaning behind it.
Gyarados- Oblivion- Meaning total ownage and annihilation.
 
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My only well thought up team was in Platinum; now, in SS, I'm just using alliteration. I do not want a Xatu. Or a Quilava.

Gallade, Szabla.
Scyther, Karabela. (Both swords.)
Luxray, Raymond. (Just... A name?)
Infernape, Cocoa. (Like the breakfast monkey, but female.)
And the best:
Garchomp, Nibbles. (So ironic. And you should see him in Outrage!)
Giratina, Teeny. (Aww... I think it gets mad when I call it that.)
 
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My favorite names i've given pokemon so far:

Ajax: a Metagross in Platinum
Odysseus: an Ampharos from my SS team
Omlet: a Togekiss from my SS team
Falkor: a Dragonite in Platinum (Falkor is the name of a luckdragon from the novel The Neverending Story)
 
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Does anyone know if there is a nickname generator kind of thing? B'cus I can't find anything.
 
Re: Pokemon Nicknames! What have you named your team and what meanings do the names h

well, i've named alot of pokes in my time (i even went thru my PkmnXD:GoD file and named every pokemon on there to pass some time o_O) but the only one that i can think of that afterwards made me feel like "oh wow, thats a really great name! 8D" was on my Platinum file where i named my Piplup (Empoleon) Aquality.

why?
Aqua: because piplups a water type :p
and i merged that with "equality". only because it seemed to fit well lol and i just thought that Aquality sounded unique and fun :3
 
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I have a few names through my many pokemon games/related.
Arcanine/Ninetales= Byakko, Nanaki
Ampharos= Ren, Rin, Iris
Typhlosion/Infernape= Renji, Ichigo
Blastoise/Empoleon= Spryte, Vincent, Vance
Dragonite= Crodechild, Dragoon
Garchomp= ChainChomp, Zelle
Pikachu= Pooka, Pocki
Raichu= Kiba, Zhap
Rhyperior= Geoff, Granlon
Noctowl/Staraptor= Zephyr, Velcon
Vaporeon= Yume, Zaphire, Vapor
Flareon= Firion, Rhiley
Jolteon= Surge, Volx
And many more...o__o;
 
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I always name Vulpix and Ninetales after Chizuru Minamoto from Kanokon. Unless it's male, then I don't love it as much and don't nickname it after an ultra-hot kitsune spirit from an ecchi manga.

...Wait, wut?
 
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Just going to list my SS pokemon

Rattata - Rabies [it totally has them!]

Ekans - Stryker [The brand of paintballs i use, and their mascot is a cobra...I figure it's gonna be an arbok eventually]

Nidoran F - Venus [The Greek god of beauty]

Nidoran M - Ares [The Greek god of war]

Togepi - Speckle [When it hatched, I couldn't think of anything better...]

Koffing - Fartardo [Just laugh. you know you want to.]

Meowth - Nyan [Japanese version of meow]

Sudowoodo - Turd [ I hate sudowoodo and it looks like a turd. One of my least favorite pokemon ever]

Swinub - Dinner [love me some bacon!]

Flaffy - Orba [Inspired by the orb on her tail. If it were a male, I'd name it Orbos]

Eevee - Oracle [Gonna evolve it into an espeon. i came up with it because I was looking around, and looked at the zelda oracle games]

Electrode - Nade [3 frags left!]

Krabby - Krusty [Ar ar ar ar ar! MONEY!]

Hoothoot - kaepora [*cue zelda get noise*]

Lugia - Excalibur [If you don't know what excalibur is, ima smack you]

Haunter - Duplis [Named after the Paper Mario 2 character]

Feraligatr - Fraggle [kinda sounds like an old person trying to say feraligatr, and while funny, it's also kinda cute.]

Poliwag - Mr.T [Gonna evolve it to poliwrath, and get another named Chuck Norris, and make that one a politoad...then double battle!]

Gyarados - Levii [Shortened "leviathan". Levi sounded like the jeans. If it were male, I'm name it crimson, cus it's shiny.]

Vulpix - Hestia [Greek fire god]
 
Re: Pokemon Nicknames! What have you named your team and what meanings do the names h

well, i've named alot of pokes in my time (i even went thru my PkmnXD:GoD file and named every pokemon on there to pass some time o_O) but the only one that i can think of that afterwards made me feel like "oh wow, thats a really great name! 8D" was on my Platinum file where i named my Piplup (Empoleon) Aquality.

why?
Aqua: because piplups a water type :p
and i merged that with "equality". only because it seemed to fit well lol and i just thought that Aquality sounded unique and fun :3

Hah, I usually just name my Piplup Mr.Bluu or Bubble D: And do you know how to connect with someone after you've registered them in your Pal Pad? Like, if it's Wi-Fi?
 
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