Pokemon Trainer Name Generator

The first thing every Pokemon game asks is your name, and the box is small: seven characters in the older games, twelve in the newer ones. That's why the canon protagonists are short and clean (Red, Leaf, Ethan, Lyra, Hilda, Calem, Selene, Gloria, Juliana) and why players who type in something long end up watching it get cut off in every dialogue box. Nearly every name in this list is twelve characters or fewer, and most are under seven.

The Pokemon world names people after nature. Player characters and rivals take colors, gems and plants (Red, Blue, Silver, Crystal, Brendan from Ruby-Sapphire's 'Brendan', Wally, Hop); gym leaders take words tied to their type (Brock, Misty, Flannery, Volkner, Skyla, Nessa). This list gives you the canon protagonists and rivals from Kanto to Kitakami, then original names sorted by type flavor (Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Flying, Rock, Ground, Fighting, Ghost, Dark, Steel and Fairy) and finally regional names in the Japanese, French, Hawaiian, British and Spanish styles that Kanto, Kalos, Alola, Galar and Paldea draw on.

Good trainer names read naturally in the phrase 'Trainer X wants to battle!' If it sounds right there, it will sound right for the whole 40-hour journey.