How long a name can Pokémon have in B/W?

Question

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbt65r2-Xs&feature=related

about 3 minutes, the Roopushin has name with many "??".

So, how long name can Pokémon have in B/W?

Comments

I think because it was patched so that is why it had so many "?" marks

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MissingNo once had about a 30 letter name one time for me.

Answer 1

In the English Pokemon (and all countries using the latin alphabet A-Z), Pokemon names are maximum 10 letters. That's why Pokemon like FERALIGATR miss a vowel between the T and R. Nicknames have the same limit of 10 letters.

The reason there are a bunch of question marks in that video is because it's an English patch on a Japanese ROM. So it screws up the names in places.