Excellent point, sis. I’m gonna rate you up right after I post this. 😀

That being said, they could have went with a much more shorter and simple name than that. Remember the original female character from Johto namely „Kris”? She’s actually Crystal/Kurisutaru, but the GBC couldn’t handle the awesomeness of her name, so she became Kris/Kurisu.

Anyways, just because we saw them named as Blair and Whitlea, it does not mean that they really are named as that. Keep in mind how Lyra was named Heart and Soul before we got to know her real name.

Probably Whit-LEE so it rhymes with Whitney.

It’s kinda like Skyler. The name is supposed to be unisex, but it tends toward female.

To be fair, several of those were nouns in Japanese. Misty was Kasumi (Mist), May was Haruka (Spring Flower), Dawn was Hikari (Light).

Touko, though, is very…. unusual. ‘Ko’ is a very common female name ending, literally meaning ‘little’.

‘Tou’, though, could mean sword, winter, east, street, answer, throw, beans, island, climb, lamp, bath, to name just some. It would depend entirely on what kanji was used, and to my knowledge the name has ever only been written in katakana. Katakana means there’s no hint of the actual meaning, it’s just phonetic. So they really didn’t have a whole lot to work with.