How pokemon got their names
This section has information on how the pokemon got their names. I got alot of mail saying some are wrong. Well now you can send me how they got their names. Thanks.
How Pokémon (& Other Stuff) Got it's Name:
Written © 1999 by Kid Kool (not me).
Pokémon: Pocket Monsters, directly translated. It was left as Pokémon,
however, due to legal issues (Remember the Monster in my Pocket fad around 7 or 8 years back?)
Pallet Town: Pallet is another word for your tastebuds. What you like,
what you don't like. It also refers top an artist's pallet, as "Shade's
of your Journey await you"
Viridian Forest/City: As far as I can tell, it's from Viridescent,
meaning slightly green, or greenish. Makes sense with the forest. Plus
the Earthbadge is here, Earth is Green.
Pewter City: Brock's the rock master, and Pewter is a semi-precious stone.
Mt. Moon: Pieces of the moon fell on it, so what do you expect?
Cerulean City: Meaning azure, as in water. Obviously because of
Misty's gym.
Nugget Bridge: What do you win at the end?
Vermilion City: It means a variety of bright shades of red going up
to Scarlet. I believe it is also a spice. Don't know how this relates
to the game...
SS Anne: Anne could be anyone, maybe one of the creators?
In the show it was changed to St. Anne.
Diglett's Cave: Digletts dug it.
Rock Tunnel: The Tunnel is made of dark rock.
Lavender Town: It's another spice, European. Notice how these relate
to Pallet? It also means Purple, another relationship to Pallet. No leader
here, though.
Celadon City: The big town is named after Celandine, another herb.
Don't know about a colour reference for this. But it makes sense,
considering the gym leader uses plants.
Rocket Game Corner: Team Rocket runs it.
Saffron City: An orange powder used to... it's another spice, okay?
It could also relate to Sapphire.
Silph Co.: I believe Silph relates to mages and wizards, but I may be
wrong. It would make sense though, they did make the Silph scope for
ghosts and the Master Ball.
Fuchsia City: If you've ever used Crayons when you were little, you've
seen it before. A vivid reddish-purple, or, as it says on the town's
sign, "It's Passion Pink!" And, guess what, it's a plant with flowers on
it. Plus, poison is that colour sometimes.
Safari Zone: Safari, as in jungle hunting type stuff.
Seafoam Islands: The Sea Foams, people. No big deal.
Cinnabar Island: Cinnamon kinda jumped out at me. Cinnamon does come
in bars/sticks. It's also an ore from Mercury. Spicey and ore, both
relates to the volcanic tendencey's of the island and it's leader.
Indigo Plateau: Plateau's are flat lands. Indigo is the forgotten
colour of the rainbow. It's also a dye from plants.
Victory Road: You're beating the game, you think they're gonna name it
Loser Street?
Characters - (* means it is only from the show)
Professor Oak: He was Dr. Ochido (I believe) in Japanese, which means
(Another I think) Orchid. A flower. Oak is just a tree, though.
Ash Ketchum: Ketchum, Catch 'em, if you didn't get that... Ash I
originally thought meant he was a fire trainer, but then I saw why.
It's from Satoshi (SatOSH, ASH) in Japan, and the creator of the game
was named Satoshi. Kinda surprised me as the credits rolled by.
Gary Oak: Oak, as in he's Prof. Oak's Grandson. His name in Japan was
Shigeru. I think this relates to Shigeru Miyamato (Apologies if I
mispelled that), creator of Mario and Donkey Kon and Zelda and producer
of Pokémon.
Brock: Take off the 'b' and what do you get?
Misty: Water creates Mist.
Lt. Surge: Surge is from electricity.
Erika: I honestly don't know. Maybe some florist?
Sabrina: This jumped out at me. They even mention she's teenage in the
game. Sabrina the Teenage Witch!
Koga: It sounds Japanese, and he is a Ninja.
Blaine: Maybe related to Blaze? Not sure about this one.
Nurse Joy*: She's so happy, and her Chansey's are too.
Officer Jenny*: Just a name, I believe.
Dome Fossil: A dome is a sphere like shape. The Kabuto within is
dome shaped.
Helix Fossil: Helix is a spiral, like the Omanyte.
Pokémon:
Bulbasaur: Bulb as in flower bulb, saur as in dinosaur.
Ivysaur: Ivy is just another plant.
Venusaur: refers to the flower on the back, a Venus fly-trap.
There may be other origins.
Charmander: Char refers to charred, char-boiled, etc. Mander is
charmander, the red lizard.
Charmeleon: Meleon refers to Chameleon
Charizard: Izard -> Lizard
Squirtle: Squirt as in, well, squirt, urtle as in Turtle.
Wartortle: War as in war, Tortle as in kinda turtle, kinda tortoise.
Blastoise: Blast from the cannons, Oise from Tortoise.
Caterpie: Caterpillar
Metapod: Meta as in metamorph, changing.
Butterfree: BEFREEE! Butterfly, Freedom, Butterfree.
Weedle: The worm in the weeds.
Kakuna: Cocoon.
Beedrill: Bee with drills.
Pidgey: Pidgeon.
Pidgeotto: Same as above.
Pidgeot: Same as above.
Rattata: Rat attack
Raticate: Eradicate, Eraticate, Raticate!
Spearow: Spear-like beak, sparrow. 'Nuff said.
Fearow: You're supposed to fear it.
Ekans: This is an interesting one that you'd miss if you didn't think
about it. Reverse it: Ekans - snakE. Cool, eh?
Arbok: Same as above. Arbok - kobrA! Cobra!
Pikachu: Everyone's favourite. You can say it means yellow all you want,
Pika is a rabbit that lives in the Arctic and eats Bird Brains,
according to PFX, I believe.
Raichu: It's the same as Japan, so I guess it's got some origin there.
Any ideas?
Sandshrew: A shrew (mouse-like) in the sand.
Sandslash: It knows the Slash move.
Nidoran: Jumbled up it spells Ironand, a metal candle-holder.
Nidorina: Just an advanced Nidoran.
Nidoqueen: Same as above.
Nidoran: Jumbled up it spells Ironand, a metal candle-holder.
Nidorino: Just an advanced Nidoran.
Nidoking: Same as above.
Clefairy: Don't know about the Cle, but a fairy is obvious.
Notice in the game it says "Pi pi pii"? It's named
Pippi in Japan.
Clefable: Same thing, Fable is a mythical tale. Usually with a moral.
Vulpix: From vulpine, meaning relating to a fox.
Ninetales: It's got nine tails, and a tale is a story.