Pokémonteaus! The 25 UNIQUEST Pokemon Names ✏️ Gnoggin 

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Fun little anime fact: Gladion in the anime never calls Type:Null Type:Null. Only Silvally. I feel like it shows how much he cares about it calling it an actual name instead of a title that reflected it's worth to it's creators.

My favorite Pokémon's name is Deerling's french name. It's "Vivaldaim" ("daim" is the french for "Europen fallow deer" and Vivaldi is the composer of the famously known Four Seasons concerto). See what they did there ? :D

Can’t forget Eevee, who’s name is 4/5ths E and is a palindrome

My favourite name fact : Type : Null is the only Pokémon who has a Spanish and an Italian version of its name, as those languages use the English names for all other Pokémons. Instead of null, a word those languages doesn't really have an equivalent for, unless they use their words for "inexistant" or "nothing", so they used their word for zero, Tipo Zero in Italian, and Código Cero in Spanish, where they used their word for "code" instead of "type" French did something slightly different, using the actual number and keeping the colon German, Japanese and English use, giving it the name Type:0.

Fun fact : in French, Type: Null is called Type: 0, despite “nul / nulle” being an existing word. I believe I understand why that is... you see, “nul” in French can mean “lame”. And “type” is synonym for “guy”. Should the French translators have decided to name it Type: Nul, its name would have sounded and meant “lame guy”. I think it's wasted potential that they didn't go along with it :’) Edit : typo

Lockstin's avatar is slowly revealing itself to be a Ditto, reverting back to its old form after years.

One of the most interesting Pokémon names in German are Noibat and Noivern. In German Noibat is called eF-eM which stand for FM, but written the way the abbreviated letters are pronounced in German. Noivern is UHaFnir which stands for UHF, another type of radio frequency, and Fafnir, a norse dragon. So that name is a Portmanteau but also an abbreviation and a phonetic pun.

Always loved the Hydreigon line because of their names. It is literally counting the heads of the evolution in german, along with a nod to the dragon typing. Deino = eins (one) + dino (big, strong) Zweilos = zwei (two) + -los (fragment used all over the place in naming reptile-like creatures) Hydreigon = drei (three) + hydra (multiheaded evil dragon-like creature from greek mythos) + dragon. Lockstin did a video on it a while back, even.

Girafarig in Japanese is キリンリキ (kirinriki), also a palindrome, which means "giraffe telekinesis". Idk, but I think that's absolutely hilarious

Funny thing is that Brazilian Portuguese was initially supposed to have its own versions of the Pokémon names, using combinations of words which would make sense with Brazilian Portuguese in mind, as well as Brazilian culture. One remnant of this is that the Bulbasaur line is well-known in Brazil with their names ending in "-Sauro" instead of "-Saur", as "-Sauro" is the suffix used in the Portuguese word for dinosaur, "dinossauro", as well as the names of many dinosaurs themselves

There’s also a few times in the games where Pokémon are referred to by their names in other languages, like in Gen 7. Also, in Legends Arceus, we learn that in the native language of Alola, Vulpix are called Keokeo (from ke’oke’o, “white” in Hawaiian).

Fun fact: Sprigatito's name cannot be pronounced properly by spanish speakers if they follow the rules of their language. In spanish, when a word starts with an "s" and is followed by any consonant, ex: Sprite, Spray, Stand, Sports; it will have a vowel sound added in the beggining, making some loan words be pronounced differently, for example, "sport" will be pronounced as "esport" instead, "spray" will be pronounced "espray", and "sprigatito" will be pronounced "esprigatito" PD: And "speedy gonzales" is pronounced "espeedy gonzales"

Props to Type: Null for being the only Pokémon whose name changes in Spanish and Italian

I like the name Escavelier. It just sounds cool, and mysterious.

"Look at crabominable, unfortunately you have to see it" 🤣

A colon can drastically change a sentence's meaning. For example... "She ate her friend's sandwich" as opposed to "She ate her friend's colon"

To me, the name Porygon-Z was always a reference to the Z axis in graphs, as there is an X axis(horizontal), a Y axis(vertical), and a Z axis (diagonal), giving this new evolution more dimension.

While there are hundreds of names that are just portmanteaus, Arcanine is one of the best. While a lot of people say Ark-uh-nine, I feel like saying like arcane and canine gives it so much more of a presense, one that its status as the "Legendary Pokémon" deserved.

What I find the most interesting about pokemon names is that the Hydreigon line uses numbers "ein, zwei, drei" outside of Germany, but in Germany, it's "uno, duo, trio" instead.

Okay as a linguistic nerd, this is really fun to watch

There are a few other Pokémon with paldindromes for names, such as Eevee and Ho-Oh.

Not calling Talonflame Pyregrin was a real shame.

I love the names of the Legendary Beast trio, Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. Their names sounded mystic and cool behind the meaning.

Nihilego has to be my favorite. Both because it actually sounds like a weird scientific name, but because it translates into a STATEMENT. A statement that even reflects their role as a body-snatcher, too!

My favourite name would be the French name for Ninetails. The name is Feunard. Which you can simply see as FEU + reNARD, being renard de feu (fire fox). But it goes deeper than that. The four first letters of the name are FEUN, which is NEUF backwards. Neuf is the number nine, thus reffering to the amount of tails Ninetails has.

I seriously love Type: Null’s name, I love that it has an actual explained lore reason for being named that, and it’s a super unique name, being Type: Full at first, a cool name I could actually see scientists naming their project, then getting changed to Null when it failed, it’s super cool!, not just “Arceustwo” -looks at Mewtwo

I think my favorite naming scheme are the numbers, especially in other languages, Mewtwo, Articuno, Hydreigon, 2, 1, 3 but I also like the spaced names with the dash like Ho-Oh and Kommo-o, I also love backwards names like the palindrome Girafarig (which fun fact those that fear Palindromes have Aibohphobia... because someone is a twisted freak that came up with phobias lol), Ekans and Arbok, snake and kobra, Rotom is Motor.

Eevee in German is called "Evoli". When I was a kid and just learned English, my mind was blown and I was confused as I recognized that its name backwards is "I love". ikd if there is any deeper meaning into it, but it is quite interesting.

Similar to Girafarig, Eevee, Ho-Oh, and Alomomola's names are also palindromes. Abra, Muk, and Aron all have names that appear in other Pokémon names they don't evolve from/into (Mew appears in Mewtwo, but I'd say they're close enough related, to only have an honourable mention). Abra appears in CrABRAwler, Muk appears in PyukuMUKu, and Aron appears in VolcARONa. Many other Pokémon appear in other Pokémon names like Porygon in Porygon2 and Porygon-Z, Pidgeot in Pidgeotto, Paras in Parasect, etc. however they're all from the same evolution lines. Pyukumuku has the longest name that can be typed using only the right-hand side of the keyboard. Similar Pokémon are: Muk, Hypno, Hoppip, Ho-Oh, Minun, Piplup, Lopunny, Lillipup, Klink, Popplio, Mimikyu and Kommo-o Rattata has the longest name that can be typed using only the left-hand side of the keyboard. Similar Pokémon are: Abra, Seadra, Eevee, Feebas, Axew and Bewear Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam is the only 3-stage evolution line to use only 1 different vowel throughout all their names.

Maybe you didn't come across that but noibat and noivern in german use Upper case letters in the middle of the names. They are called "eF-eM" and "UHaFnir" because for german noibat that is literally how the phonetic spelling of "FM" (you know frequency modulation) in german would be. And for german noivern they kinda did a similar thing with UHF (ultra high frequency) as you would phonetically spell that as "U-Ha-F" and Fafnir (figure in north mythology). And it gives of the vibes of rapidly changing volumes of sound. The german translation team must have had a blast with this one. BTW where are the 8/16 bits retro backgrounds from? I feel like I know these from somewhere...

My favorite poké name fact is that the German name of Decidueye is extremely similar to Silvally's name (Decidueye is called Silvarro), which is probably the reason why Silvally's German name is so drastically different (it being Amigento)

Noibats´ german name "eF-eM" is a name that doesn´t start with a capital letter

My favorite pokémon name has to be Shoe, from South Park

Fun fact: I believe Type: Null is the only Pokémon who has a different name in every language, as opposed to languages like Spanish sharing the same names with English for the rest of the Pokémon. (For anyone wondering, in Spanish it's called "Código Cero", which means Code Zero, following the idea of the Æther foundation naming this Pokémon via a code and having no type referenced with that "zero")

I thought Dragalgae was gonna be one of 'em. Definitely a name for sure.

Speaking of those names in other languages videos, I think you should do one for pokemon moves too. A lot of nuance was lost or changed in the early gens, and not all of it was due to character limitations. Seriously, how did "Melt" become "Acid Armor?"

I like that he wanted to put an "e" instead of an "o" in "-gatr"

I kinda wanna see Lockstin go into detail about Lickitung. It's a strange Pokémon (all things considered) with its origins and how its mostly only known now as "The Tongue Pokémon". But I want to see a more delved in look at which animals its design is based off of (Iguanodons and lungless salamanders), as well and yokai (the akaname) and monsters. More importantly, what made Lickitung's design work as a Pokémon (even if some consider it middling) and what DIDN'T work with 😮‍💨 Lickilicky. Fun Fact: in the Red/Blue betas Lickitung's name was originally Tonguetyd as in "tongue-tied".

The legendary birds all having spanish numbers in their names (uno, dos, tres) was always neat, and especially now when they're technically the first three legendaries ever being 1, 2 and 3 fits them. Also the numbers are the order they expected people to encounter them (Articuno in Seafoam Islands, fly back to Cerulean to the power plant for Zapdos, then to Victory Road for Moltres)

I like the simple concept of Pokémon names being portmanteaus. It's a big reason why I like this series. Some of my favorites include Charizard, Butterfree, Ninetales, Zigzagoon, Chandelure, Klinklang, Geodude, and Seismitoad.

I love the redesign of your avatar

Gligar's name is really appealing to me because aside from it being a combination of "glide" and "gargoyle", it also alludes to H.R. Geiger, who designed the xenomorph from Alien. You see, Gligar's design draws some inspiration from the facehugger, as evidenced by the way it flies onto people's faces in the anime and some of its Pokedex descriptions. Unfortunately that Alien reference is dropped with Gliscor though.

Oh my gosh, I never even thought about the spaces in the Tapu's names. Did I ever even notice it?!

Thank you for this superb storytelling and the narrative that conducts your videos. All of them have perfect and smooth narrative transitions that show your mastery writing your scripts.

Chibi Lockstin has no right of looking this adorable, your Jury.

My favourite Name Fun fact: In german, Noibat and Noivern are called „eF-eM“ and „UHaFnir“. That makes them the only pokemon (in german atleast) Which have a capital letter directly after a lower case letter. The reason for that is, that their names reference the abbreviations FM and UHF

Currently working on my own gigantic video projects, where I have to do a lot of work with audio. Even just turning your videos on super low volume in the background are really helping me work, just the cadence and timbre of your voice just wakes my brain up a little and keeps me motivated.

Glaceon is a portmanteau of "glacier" and the "-eon" suffix for the Eeveelutions, but it's also an anagram (same letters, just scrambled) of "congeal," which means "to freeze!" Probably an accident, but that only makes it *cooler*--literally. Really makes Leafeon's underwhelming name stand out. Speaking of possible accidents, Shaymin is a Grass-type hedgehog. A HEDGE hog.

Hey, I'm loving your new mascot guy, the art is great and the colour composition is awesome! Great job to that artist!

Didn't know I'd be interested in how unique Pokemon names are. My favourite has to be Necrozma. I mean, how cool does that name sound? Eternatus too.

This is one of the coolest videos I’ve seen about origins of Pokémon names and concepts. Thanks Lockstin!

actually a lot of pokemon could have a colon, not just type: null. one of darmaka's dex entries talks about its poop and i think pikachu shits everywhere in the manga

The best pokemon name is Xatu. When they had to come up with English names for gen 2 pokemon, they were told we want names that start with every letter of the English alphabet that didn't already have a name. What to do with X? They looked up how the Haida tribe in the Vancouver area makes totem poles, and the word for a totem pole in their language is Xat. Since this pokemon is based on totem poles partially, it fits. Good research.

I never knew the info about the Tapus names, thank you for teaching me that! I think that might be my favorite since no other Pokémon has a name like that, and because it honors a culture that is significantly underrepresented at best, or intentional attempts to erase at worse

Flaaffy has two sets of double letters in a row. Mew and Muk are tied for the shortest name of 3 letters. Fletchinder of Gen VI was the first Pokémon to have more then 10 characters in its name

Great video

Fun fact: in French, there are 2 Pokémon with letters in their name: Porygon2 and Type:0 (Type: Null)

I like that the legendary birds have (Artic)Uno, (Zap)Dos, and (Mol)Tres

i love when lockstin uploads. i see the notif and think its a response to some comment, so the bright thumbnail is a pleasant surprise.

I literally just watched one of my favorite youtubers failing to name most pokemon, and then I remembered Lockstin has made a brand out of explaining why these strange creatures have their even stranger names. Serendipity

The K in Arbok most likely references the King Cobra

Something that I never see discussed in this channels comments - The editing. I don't know if I'm just in a wierd mood today, but the editing is really speaking to me. Great work, I love this channel and the editing is a huge part of it.

Awesome video! I love videos on topics like these. Cant wait to see more from you

If Ekans and Arbok spelled backwards blew your mind wait till you learn about Muk

I finally found my first shiny but I had to be quiet as it was night time. It was a shiny magnemite

That Farfetch'd/Sirfetch’d fact was the weirdest one for me, I was aware of the others since I'm a nerd for weird nomenclature

In German, some Pokémon have some interesting names as well. Like Mienfoo and Mienshao. In German they're called "Lin-Fu" and "Wie-Shu", Pancham is named "Pam-Pam" and Drampa is "Sen-Long". Notable as well is that the Tapus are called "Kapu-Riki", "Kapu-Fala", "Kapu-Toro" and "Kapu-Kime". So, all these Pokémon have a hyphen in their names. Also, Type: Null has no space in it's name and is named "Type:Null". However, the most bizarre name for Pokémon are the German versions of Noibat and Noivern. They're named "eF-eM" and "UHaFnir" and no, it's not a spelling mistake. "eF-eM" is an onomatopoeia of the abreviation "FM", which means frequency modulation. "UHaFnir" is a combination of an onomatopoeia of the abreviation "UHF" (Ultra High Frequency" and "Fafnir", which is the name of a dragon, if I'm not wrong. (Correct me if I am.)

Do a Video on Cetitan

The saws in sawsbuck is an acronym for Summer Autumn Winter Spring

Porygon is one of my favorite evolution lines. I wish they'd show it more love

Lockstin: mr. Mime has a space in it and also a period, which is unique to mr. Mime and Mime jr. Mr. Rime: *cries in tap dance*

2:59 hmmmm, am I missing something

Another awesome video! Always can't wait for more. ^_^

I actually quite enjoy these list-type videos, they might be my favorite of the different types of videos on your channel

6:30 I think you mean the only Pokemon with a *Numeral* in its name. MewTWO has a number in its name as well. You could also argue the same for the Deino line, which uses German numbers.

6:28 Funnily enough, if you look for 'numbers' in Pokémon names, then seven Pokémon have 'one' in their names, two have 'two' in theirs, four have 'ten' in theirs and two have 'nine' in theirs. Seven X one = seven Two X two = four Four X ten = forty Two X nine = eighteen Add those numbers together and what do you get..? 69. Coincidence... Impossible. Wake up sheeple.

Early early

love that Lockstins animated persona is going through Funko Pop metamorphosis

In Spanish, the accents are used to make sure that two vowels next to each other are pronounced separately, or to indicate that the stressed syllable isn't the one you'd expect because of the last letter in the word. This could be helpful in the Paldea Region.

I'm sorry but your new icon looks like some sort of mascot for a weird cheese-based product. Or maybe some sort of sour cream and onion chip. It's honestly making me a little sick Just looking at it. I don't mean to be mean. The artist did a great job with the rest of the composition. It's just that hair color match with that skin color gives me a very sickly look

A interesting fact about a pokemon's name is the bulbasaur line, there wasn't, and still there isn't, a portuguese version of pokemon, so when the anime was launched in Brazil they just used the english names, except for the bulbasaur line, here they changed the "saur" part for "sauro", probably to make it easier for kids to pronounce, but to this day it's the only pokemon to change name in Brazil. And of course I'm not counting Type: Null since it it more a title than a name.

Love the new lockstin avatar(?) art in the new vids

very proud of you for not mentioning Muk when talking about Ekans and Arboc, I'm sure that took a lot of maturity to hold yourself back.

Love in the Flabébé section there's little Flabébés in the flowers blowing in the wind

Regarding apostrophes (and accents) I always think of things like, Shakespearean verse, where the apostrophe or accent would change the pronunciation of a word, often one ending in ed, to fit the meter of the verse. For example, let's use "loved" (typically a one-syllable word) and "beloved" (typically three syllables). A line might use, instead, "lovéd", extending the pronunciation to two syllables, or "belov'd", shortening the word to two syllables because you swallow the e.

The heterogram joke really got me.

These are all cool facts! My favorite name fun fact is that muk backwards is

Girafarig is one of my favorite mons for sure, but there's a few more Pokémon with palindrome names too! You might know that "Eevee" is a good, straightforward one "Ho-oh" is another one, and even the hyphen gets to play a part But I like this one because it goes under the radar a lot: "Alomomola." I never knew how to spell it until I figured out it was a palindrome

can we get a video going deeper on things about Type: Null ? the pokemon sounds interesting for me and would like to know more about it

Pretty neat getting a grammar and punctuation lesson through the lens of Pokémon. Where was this when I was in school?

Heyyyy Lockstin here’s a little idea, you could go over the Pokémon names in other languages I mean that needs a little bit of Gnoggin

5:50 another reason the “é” is used is because “bébé” translates to baby and since flebébé is the first stage of the line it is the baby

Lockstins avatar is littarily the «please dont turn me into an oversimplified logo» mene

Farfetch’d and Sirfetch’d also makes me think of Shakespearean English with its words like “suck’d” and “mark’d” and “supp’d”

Type: Null name could be a reference to the wording and syntax used in various programming languages. Null or nil is usually used to describe a variable with data that is missing, corrupted, or otherwise unusable

I’m loving the new little avatar Lockstin!

thats cute, the rugal stage from kings of fighters i like that

I still absolutely love crabominable. He's a goofy lad and I love him.

I’m pretty sure the z in porygon z also refers to the z axis being added. If you look at the arms and tail I feel like this makes sense. Also the 2 might refer to how in 3d design there’s this thing called subdivision which is used to smooth out the polygons. Which all comes together when you think of porygon as the first 3d Pokémon (look at old 3d models)