The main objective of the study is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of translation of proper names and the techniques applied by translators. According to some translation scholars, proper names should not be translated. Audiovisual translation offers various proofs of the possibility and even the necessity of their translation. Most proper names are translatable and translated. There are also proper names that pose specific problems in translation from one language into another. We aim at studying the way proper names appear in French comedies with Romanian subtitles, the typology of possible differences between the Romanian form and the original form, suggesting solutions for unifying the translation of proper names into Romanian in the audiovisual translation process.