These nicknames for water Pokemon are sure to make a splash with your gyarados, greninja, kyogre and more! You'll spend hours grinding levels on the seashore, atop the waves and in gym battles, so it's important you get their name just right!
Below, you'll find good nicknames for specific water type Pokemon, followed by a ton of more generic ideas that are clever, cute, cool and funny.
Good Nicknames for Water Type Pokemon
Splash - for magikarp
Pooch or Pup - for suicune
Nimbus - for suicune
whiskers - for wiscash
Toof or Tooth or Teeth - for feraligatr, sharpedo or basculin
JAWS - for sharpedo, obviously!
LordHelix - for omanyte and omastar
Fossil or Relic - for omanyte or omastar
FreeWilly - for wailmer, wailord & kyogre
Aspirin - for psyduck
Squidward (like from Spongebob) - for tentacool and tentacruel
Testicool - for tentacool and tentacruel
Patrick (like from Spongebob) - for staryu and starmie
Michelangelo (like from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) - for turtle Pokemon like squirtle, blastoise, & chewtle
Kermet - for frog Pokemon like poliwag, politoad & greninja
PringlesMan - for male jellicent (seriously... a striking resemblance!)
Madagascar - for piplup and empoleon
DonaldDuck or DaffyDuck - for ducklett, psyduck and golduck
Leviathan - for big water Pokemon like gyarados
Chomper - for feraligatr, sharpedo or basculin
Claws - for the kinglerand crawdaunt lines
Kraken - for tentacruel and omastar
PewPew - for blastoise
Shellshocker (homage to the first Pokemon movie) - for blastoise
Turbo - for slowpoke and slowbro
MrKrabs - for krabby or kingler
Lobstar - for crawdaunt
Edison - for chinchou and lanturn
Borealis
Fin
Ariel
Siren
Mist
Drizzle
Admiral
Waterfall
Flounder
Fishsticks
Chum
Neptune
Tide
Sushi
Coral
Polaris
Flipper
Aquaman
Squirt
Pearl
Scylla (the sea monster from Greek mythology)
Commodore
Nile
Scales
Nessy
Captain
Misty (the Cerulean City Gym leader)
Aquarius
Tsunami
Nemo
Dory
Cowabunga
Seaweed
Atlantis
Tide
Neptune (the Roman god of the sea)
Poseidon (the Greek god of the sea)
Amphitrite (the Greek goddess of the sea)
Triton (the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite)
Broseidon
Hook
Ursula
Flotsam
Jetsam
Namor
Cascade
Pokemon Nicknames by Type
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