I use Calcy IV (Android) for calculating IVs with an overlay that reads the stats with 1 click. This has working amazingly for me but today I realized there is a naming system in place through the app as well. When you scan a Pokemon there is an option to automatically generated a name for that Pokemon and put that name in your clipboard so you can just paste it right there. There are tons of customizable options for naming and choosing what info you want to see. If you’re on Android you need to try this app out.
*I am in no way affiliated with this app I just use it and have loved my experience.
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i’ll check it out bro 
I’ll give it a try and start naming my pokemons better!
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I’m pretty inconsistent. I keep some pokemon for special occassions, eg I found a ditto at Thomas Edison’s summer home, so I named him Edison. For normal guys, I try to keep total IV percentage for wonders. I also group my prestigers based on strength. Electric = 1, Water = 2, Ice = 3, etc. For example, 1Jolteon98_3 groups with electric move sets (Gyrados, Vaporean couners), has 98% IV’s and their charged move has three bars. For pokemon with a variety of charged moves I’ll just designate the type of the move, which is normally good enough. Let’s me sort quickly for prestiging.
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I have naming convention based on:
- Fighting in gyms
- Waiting for evolution
- Pokemon that I keep (great IV, or rare, but not for battles)
So… it goes like this:
1. Fighting in gyms
- 3 letters of the main moveset
- Amount of damage produced by that moveset
- 3 letters of the second moveset (if different than the previous, if not, just skip this)
- Amount of damage produced by the special moveset
- A character for IV (+ for "call my attention, @ for above average, - “not likely to make much in battle” - based on Mystic team. If “Wonder”, then I favorite it)
2. Waiting for evolution
I change their names to “01, 02, 03…” so they are organized and to know when I have enough for a lucky egg to evolve them (usually I evolve when I reach 85.
3. Pokemon that I keep (great IV, or rare, but not for battles)
Usually keep their original name, add a “z” at the beginning so they move to the end when looking for a moveset, and add the IV XX% at the end.
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In the past I named my Pokemons like “Pidgey/AD” which means it had the best value for attack and defense. I know it’s not that accurate but i didn’t needed more.
Now i only favorite them over 80% and use Unichar symbols for their attacks like “Pidgey⦿⁂” for Normal and Flying type attack.
I use Calcy IV to manage my name’s.
Quick attack type Charged attack type dash dps at level 35 A-F rating of defense moves per species dash iv with * for legacy moves, + for best attack moves, - for best defense moves. Hope that makes sense.
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I label mine with the first 3 letters, followed by the IV’s:
Drag-100%
Sno-50%
S-gya-24% (for shiny)
Moveset IV, exclamation point if it has maxed attack. For example Dragonite with perfect attack stat at 95.6 IV and dragon breath / dragon claw will look like this: DB/DC 95.6!
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I use UniChar (so Unicode symbols) to show me the attack type at the end of the pokemons name. I favorite everything over 80%
Can you give an example? or a screenshot?
I just give them regular nicknames like I would in the main series games.
Sure! There you can see some of my strongest mons some weeks ago.
Gyarados has 2 Dragon type attacks so i gave it that Vulcano looking symbol. 八
ℓ (litre) is the unit for liquids so i use it for water attacks.
Exeggutors first attack is psycho type and his second is a grass type.
I don’t need to know which IVs my Pomemon have unless i want to evolve or power them up but then I’m gonna check them in Pokegenie.
I copied that from Nick of trainer tips (Youtube).
But i had to find symbols from the UniChar Keyboard which i could use ingame. Not all of them work.
Just realised i already posted 2 times in this thread 
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I use the system like this AB-abc-XY. In which:
A for Charge Move (1 for best DPS and 2
for the second ect)
B for Fast Move (the same model above)
abc for type skill. Example: elt for electric, gro for ground etc
XY for the IV and if it has perfect IV, it will be @@
Example: Jolteon has Volt Switch/Thunder with 98 IV, I name it like this 11-let-98
This system has a problem that i have to remember all the DPS of PKM but I did 
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I use somewhat of a strange system I usually have 2 of the same pokemon, one meant for D (Defense), one meant for A (Attack), if I only have one, then I choose A or D based off of if theya re higher ranked defenders or attackers. then I use / to seperate info, then proceed to put TMF (Fast TM), TMC (Charged TM), or TMB (Both TMs), depending on which attack they have that I wish to change (which TM they need, fast, charged, or both), so right now the setup for example, on a Charizard I have
A/TMB
Then, I add the IV, on a base of 1-4, 1 means breathtaking, 2 means it caught my attention, 3 means above average, and 4 means not likely to make headway, so like…
A/TMB/2
Pokemon I have yet to evolve simply have E (evolve) instead of A or D, and then their IV, for example
E/2, or E/3
Raid Bosses I am adding RAID (and whcih # raid) at the end INSTEAD of their IVs so like
D/TMF/RAID 1
SOOOOO, when I fight a Gym, I go to the search bar, type in A/, and choose to place them by CP, same thing when i choose a gym defender, I type D/, place them by CP, and then choose my top Pokemon available. I am still in the process of organizing because I just started it in this system because of the gym rework, but right now my top attacker is Machamp with 2252 CP, and my top defender is Blissey with 2311 CP (take into consideration that I sitll have a lot more pokemon to organize, so that will likely change, but well, that is my long and complicated system for organizing pokemon.
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As shown I go caps for the base type. Then lower for attacks base type+damage then list hp.
So Rhydon there.
GR ground rock
fi Fighting 15
b Bug 90
Hp 165
Lapras
WI water ice
I ice 10
d dragon 90
Hp 203
Need more space for names at least three more characters but what can ya do.
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Naming? Sometimes I base it on a location… I named Snorlax that I found randomly spawned on my block, SnorBlock, lol.
But in general I do this…
for example I have a 95IV Dragonite that is male I would write it as Drag95M… I used the gender since I want to know right away if I have one of each Pokemon for the (eventual) breeding portion of our game.
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As most of us I guess I am focussing on raiding lately and so I have changed my naming strategy.
I see a lot of people struggling what Pokemon to use against a Raidboss.
For me most important at the moment is being able to see the typing of attacks a Pokémon has.
During the 2 minutes of preparationtime I have to change the Bisseys, the game for some reason always puts in my default squad (
), I want to be able to see the typing of attacks my Pokémon have.
Plus I use the Go Hub Pokedex for attackpercentages.
So I have called my Golem for example like this:
87A92 rocroc
87 = IV
A92 means that the attack moveset damage is 92% of the best offensive moveset
rocroc means both quick and charged move are a rock type attack (Rock Throw/Rock Blast in this case)
I find it personally very usefull
I’m using a appraisal-based naming system
First I’m using the first 3 letters of a pokemon’s name. Then I’m naming them after the 4 categories
"+" = best
"=" = good
"-" = bad
"/" = worst
then I write down the best stat(s)
KP (or HP bc it’s german)
A (Attack)
V (or D for Defense)
and then +, =, - or / for the stat
And since the Gym Rework I put a
OM (Offesive Moveset)
DM (Defensive Moveset)
ODM (Best in both categories)
behind that all
if the moveset is the best in either of the categories
So to put it in an example:
A machamp above 82 % and focus on attack (stat =15) with counter and dynamic punch would be
"Mac+A+OM"
With perfect IV’s it would be
"Mac+KPAV(HPAD)+OM"
For offensive purposes, the name a Pokemon has should convey the information you cannot get from the “select Pokemon” screen when lining up an attacking team. At a minimum, I would put the move TYPE for the fast and charge in the name so as to tell two of the same species apart.
For raiding, I would go so far as to name them your raid target (i.e. Moltres, Zapdos) for an easy find in your Pokedex.
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