What are the name origins of all the gym leaders, elite four and champions?

Question

Crasher wake comes from crashing waves, malva, who is part of team flare, has the suffix mal- in her name. This is used when something is bad or evil (now you know why malamar was the antagonist in episode 19 in X/Y?). What are the origins for all of them

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I'm positive this has been asked before

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This is  going to be hard

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Not hard, just long :/

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Do you seriously need this information? Because I can't see any use in this.
Or are you just point grubbing?

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I just wanted to know

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She was formerly Team Flare? Come to think of it, the mannerisms make it abundant.

Answer 1

Here are the etymologies for the Elite Four:

Kanto

• Lorelei: Japanese name is Kanna, possibly derived from Kan, which is cold.
• Bruno: From brute, possibly.
• Agatha: Possibly from the word aghast (let's face it, she looks like a ghost)
• Lance: Possibly from a lance, used by knights, who fought dragons in legends and fairy tales.

Johto

• Will: From willpower, which is basically mental strength.
• Koga: From Kogaryu, a ninja school.
• Karen: Dunno really, contains the last five letters of 'darken' perhaps.

Hoenn

• Sidney: From sinister, insidious, sadness or something along those lines.
• Phoebe: From phobia, or even phantom.
• Glacia: From glacier, a large chunk of ice.
• Drake: From Dragon.
• Steven: Second name is Stone. Fairly obvious.
• Wallace: Wallow maybe. A way of crying, may refer to water.

Sinnoh

• Aaron: From arachnid, the phylum to which spiders belong.
• Bertha: Rearrange the letters, and you will get earth.
• Flint: From the flint stone, which can produce fire on rubbing.
• Lucian: Derived from Latin lux ("light"). It's similar to illusion or hallucination.
• Cynthia: Possibly from champion.

Unova

• Shauntal: From haunt.
• Grimsley: From Grim.
• Marshall: From martial, which really comes from martial arts.
• Caitlin: Dunno. Maybe from Cattleya, a type of orchid.

Kalos

• Malva: 'Mal', a prefix for evil, referring to her being a Team Flare official.
• Siebold: Japanese name is Zumi, which can be rearranged to mizu, Japanese for water.
• Wikstrom: No clue, the closest we get is the Wikstroemia plant.
• Drasna: From dragon.
• Diantha: From the genus Dianthus, which is derived from the Greek words for god and flower

As for Gym leaders, refer here.
Hope I helped!

Answer 2

Kanto
Brock- as in Rock
Misty as in Mist
Lt. Surge as in Lieutenant, a military rank and electrical surge.
Erika- a species of flowers
Koga from Koga Ryu a school of ninjutsu
Janine - ninja with syllables reversed
Sabrina- sounds like Abra or Brain( or a reference to the teenage witch)
Blaine- as in Blaze or Flame
Giovanni- as in Geo
Johto
Falkner- as in a Falcon trainer
Bugsy- as in Bug
Whitney- as in white
Morty- From Latin, Mortis, Death or mortuary
Chuck- a reference to Chuck Norris
Janine-a jasmine is a sweet flower and the mine refers to mining
Pryce- as in Ice
Clair- rhymes with lair as in Dragon's lair
Hoenn
Roxanne- as in Rock
Brawly- refers to Brawl
Wattson- as in Electric Watts
Flannery- from Flame
Norman- as In Normal
Winona-from Winnow, wing or Wind
Tate and Liza- from Levitate
Wallace- from Water
Sinnoh
Roark- As in Rock
Gardenia- as in Gardening
Maylene- as in Melee
Crasher Wake- as in Crashing Waves
Fantina-a pun on phantom.
Byron- from Iron
Candice- Latin for Candida, which means shining white and as in ice
Volkner- as in Volt
Unova
Cilan - From Cilantro
Cress- from Watercress
Chili- from chili pepper
Lenora- Possibly from Normal
Burgh- from Bug
Elesa- from Electric
Clay- (obviously) from Clay
Skyla- (again obvious ) from Sky
Brycen- from Ice
Drayden-from dragon and den

More coming