So I've been rewatching a lot of Thew's videos lately, and the intro to his HFTD Hailstorm review, while awesomely funny, brought up an amusing question:

What are the most common name prefixes/suffixes in Transformers?

So, since it's tricky to search TFWiki for something like this, I thought it would be fun for us to brainstorm all the Transformers names we can think of that use common name segments. segments like Blast, Charge, Sky, Storm, and Shot. Here's what I could come up with:
As Thew mentions, the suffix "storm" is really common

Storm
Acid Storm
Sunstorm
Rotorstorm
Duststorm
Hailstorm
Roadstorm
Jetstorm
Brainstorm
Sandstorm
Dragonstorm
Megastorm
Gigastorm
Stormcloud
Stormjet
Stormsurge
Stormbringer
Stormreign
Stormshot

Sky
Sky Lynx
Sky Shadow
Skyboom Shield
Skywarp
Skyblast
Skydive
Skyfire
Skystalker
Sky Byte
Skyburst
Skyquake
Skyhammer

Blast
Shockblast
Soundblaster
Master Blaster
Thunderblast
Skyblast
Electroblast
Laserblast
Fireblast
Stormblast

Blast-X
Blast Off
Blaster
Blastcharge

Shot
Sixshot
Great shot
Dropshot
Shothole
Scattorshot
Hot Shot
Treadshot
Stormshot

Tron
Megatron
Galvatron
Galvatronus
Magmatron
Gigatron
Banzaitron
Tigatron
Minitron
Computron
Betatron
Reflectron
Evapotron
Gravitron
Lavatron

Wave
Soundwave
Shockwave
Laserwave
Tidal wave
Airwave
Heatwave
Blastwave
Waverider
Waveburst

Star
Starscream
Star Sabre
Star Upper
Star Cloud
Star Dust
Star Convoy

Please, add whatever you can think of. To keep this somewhat concise, perhaps we'll limit this to non third party names only. I think Placeholder names (like Shockblast) are valid, as are Japanese versions of names (like Roadstorm), but adding stuff like Stormbomb or Storm Emporer will probably make this list a bit too unwieldy.

 

Star:
Starscream
Star Saber
Star Upper
Star Cloud
Star Dust
Star Convoy

 

How did you miss Stormshot?

 

Try doing tron lol

 

I haven't watched or bought anything RID. I was vaguely aware of there being some new white jet transformer people like, but I didn't know what his name was until now.

 

-Tron:
Megatron
Galvatron
Gigatron
Tyrantron
Banzai Tron
Tigertron
Megatronus
Devil Gigatron
Minitron
Galvatronus

Not really as many as people think.

 

Stormreign

 

Magmatron
Computron
Betatron

 

Wave:

Soundwave
Shockwave
Airwave
Tidal Wave
Waverider

 

Blastwave

 

Time for Stormblast to make his move!

 

You forgot Dragonstorm.  

 

Amusingly, they really don't mix the common parts very often. Where's Skyshot, Blaststorm, or Startron? LOL!

 

Over-:
Overair
Overbite
Overdrive
Overload
Overlord
Override
Over-Run

Black-:
Blackarachnia
Blackbeak
Blacker
Black Heat
Blackjack
Blackout
Blackshadow
Blackwing
Black Zarak

Big-:
Big Bang
Big Convoy
Big Daddy
Big Hauler
Bighorn
Big Hoss
Bigmos
Big Motorvator
Big Powered
Big Red
Big Shot

@funkmonkey007 you missed Slingshot!  

 

Alright, list has been updated with your additions, plus a few I remembered. Thanks for the feedback! Let's keep going!

 

Road-:
Roadblock
Roadburn
Roadburner
Roadbuster
Road Caesar
Roadfire
Roadgrabber
Roadhandler
Roadhauler
Road Hazard
Roadhound
Road Hugger
Roadmaster
Road Pig
Road Ranger
Road Rage
Road Rebel
Road Rocket
Roadstorm

 

I'm just pleased that the naming department didn't go too far down the lazy 'or' route.
So thankfully we only have a few He-Man-esque names like Cheetor, Spittor and Tankor.

 

Or at least that's true until you consider that all the Go-Bot names are part of the franchise now  

 

Why about
THUNDER
Thundercracker
Thunderwing
Thundertron
Thunderclash
Thunder
Thunderclap
Thunderblast
Thunderhoof

 

Fire
Fireball
Firebolt
Fireflight
Fireshot
Firestar
Fire Convoy
Skyfire
Misfire
Backfire
Quillfire

Wing
Wing
Wingblade
Wing Dagger
Wing Saber
Blitzwing
Thunderwing
Red Wing

Strike
Twinstrike
Quickstrike
Strika

Quick
Quickstrike
Quickswitch
Quickmix

Rotor
Rotorwash
Rotorstorm
Rotorbolt