History DubNameChange / EnglishToForeignAlbanianThroughIndonesian

** The Riddler to either le Sphinx or l'Homme-mystère ("Mystery Man"). He was also called le Poseur de colles in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfBatman''.

** WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} to Dingo
** WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} to Pat Hibulaire

** WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale to Tic and Tac

** Scrooge [=McDuck=] to Balthazar Picsou (Picsou being close to "pique-sou", "coin snatcher")
** Huey, Dewey and Louie to Riri, Fifi and Loulou

** Gyro Gearloose to Géo Trouvetou

** Magica De Spell to Miss Tick

** Winnie to Micimackó (Mici Bear[[note]] There's actually an "urban legend" explaining this particular name-change. It is said that the original translator of the stories, poet and playwright Frigyes Karinthy wasn't that well versed in the English language, and so asked his sister, Mici, to translate a rough draft for him. Renaming Winnie to Mici was his way of thanking her. But as Karinthy's other occupations included ''being'' a translator himself, this story is often treated as just a rumor, although smaller translation goof-ups present in the books do grant some credibility to it.[[/note]])

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' to ''Le Seigneur des Anneaux'':

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' to ''Der Herr der Ringe'':

** Tom Marvolo Riddle to Tom Vorlost Riddle (in order to make the "I am Lord Voldemort"-anagram workable in German)

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' to ''[=SpongeBob=] Schwammkopf'':

* The Czech translations of J.R.R. Tolkien's {{Meaningful Name}}s usually do this very accurately yet quite naturally (although some nuance in some cases is inevitably lost anyway). "Baggins" is a good example: the Czech equivalent introduced by František Vrba, "Pytlík", literally means "bag", and at the same time is an actual Czech surname.

* An old (turn of the 20th century) translation had [[Literature/TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn Huckleberry Finn]] as 'Frantík Finnů' ("Francis").

** Taiwanese version: ''Zootopia'' to ''[[CompletelyDifferentTitle Animal City Equation]]'' (動物方城市, where "方城市" is a Mandarin pun on "方程式", "equation"):

*** Rubeus (Hagrid) to Rubo (鲁伯, ''Lǔbó'', where 鲁 means "rash/rough" close enough of a transliteration)

** George Beard to George Hu ([=DreamWorks=], Taiwan). It's more understandable when you know that the Chinese surname Hú (胡) [[DownplayedTrope can translate to "beard"]].

** Ben Tennyson to Tián Xiǎobān (田小班)
** Gwen Tennyson to Tián Xiǎowén (田小玟)

** Names with R-sounds are often transliterated to have L-sounds instead since there aren't many morphemes that start with the R-sound in Mandarin to convey this[[note]]The common given name 'Rachel' is an exception, as Mandarin ''does'' have a "Ray"-morpheme, but it's still sometimes transliterated with an L-sound[[/note]], which can lead to some [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike/RealLifeChinese awkward connoctations]] in transliterated names.

* ''WesternAnimation/RescueHeroes''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'' to ''Farhan''

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (1987 version)"

** Raphael to Azam[[note]]Which means the person whom intends to win.[[/note]]
** Michelangelo to Mehran[[note]]Which means a clever person.[[/note]]
** Master Splinter to Nasif[[note]]Which means advising person.[[/note]]
** The Shredder to Shareed[[note]]Which means a stray.[[/note]]
** Bebop to Abu Halaqah[[note]]Which means the father or the person with the ring (on his snout).[[/note]]
** Rocksteady to Abu Qarn[[note]]Which means the father or the person with a horn.[[/note]]
** Krang to Asboon[[note]]Which means a pet name for an angry person.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/WhatAMess'' to ''[[CharacterTitle Lakhboot]]''

* Due to how transliteration works (reading the name aloud in the original language and then recording a rough approximation), any American TheAdjectivalMan superhero becomes "-men".
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The translator usually tries to go for a {{Woolseyism}} and usually succeeds in making translated names sound "folksy". However, some names end up inaccurate. Riverrun for example is translated as "River Fall" despite no waterfalls nearby. Highgarden is even more egregious, because the translator took the "high" part of the name and ran with it, turning it into "Mountain Paradise". Storm's End on the other hand is a case of IncidentalMultilingualWordplay because "krai" means both "reach" as in the far end of a territory, and "end", so it means "Stormy Reach" and also hints at the name's other meaning of "the end of storms". Other names are less successfully translated, especially in cases of LordCountry - while, for example, "Hornwood" is easily translated as "Rogov Les", "Lord Hornwood" gets turned into "Lord Rogov Les", which sounds either like YouNoTakeCandle or as if the lord himself is a wood. Also, many [[MyNaymeIs unusually spelled names]] got transliterated in a very weird way - some names like "Reyne", "Jeyne" or "Poole" got a -и (-ee) instead of a silent "e". An odd exception is "Jaime" which instead of being read like "Jamie" was made to rhyme with "rhyme". Tywin's name also got transliterated as "Tivin".
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' mostly uses transliteration, but this results in some unintended hilarity, like "Darth" being turned into "Dart", Yoda sounding like "The Iodine" or "Darth Maul" like "Dart Mall" (although there were no typical shopping malls in Bulgaria yet when ''The Phantom Menace'' came out). "Sith" is also transliterated like "sit", but in combination with "Lord" or with a plural suffix it sounds like "a full lord" (one who's had enough to eat) and "the full ones", respectively, so instead the title is translated as "sitski lord" and "of the Sith" in ''Revenge of the Sith'' became "na Sita" ("of the [one] Sith"). It still kind of fits, since out of the three Sith Lords in the movie, only Sidious is having any kind of revenge.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' mostly avoids that, instead going for transliteration. One notable exception is the Polyjuice Potion, which is renamed to "многоликова отвара"[[labelnote:*]]''[mnogolikova otvara]'', many-face potion[[/labelnote]]. Voldemort's name is another unusual example - since the translator (correctly) figured out that Voldemort's name came from French ''mort'' ("death"), she knew the R was silent and his name was spelled as "Voldemor" (see the above explanation about the transliteration). This (among other things, such as the "I" in "Riddle" and the verb "I am" sounding nothing alike) caused some trouble in Book 2 when the anagram of Tom Riddle's name turned into a clunky "Here I am also Lord Voldemort" and added a bunch of letters to the name "Marvolo", changing it to "Мерсволуко" ''[Mersvoluko]''.
* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' did this a lot. Bilbo and Frodo's last name was rather well translated to Торбинс[[labelnote:*]]''[Torbins]'', from торба, "bag"[[/labelnote]] and Bag End to Торбодън[[labelnote:*]]''[Torbodăn, rhymes with pun, but some readers assumed it is an English name like Thorbodden]'', "Bagbottom"[[/labelnote]] Sackville-Baggins Влачи-Торбинс[[labelnote:*]]''[Vlachi-Torbins]'', "Drag-Baggins"[[/labelnote]] and Gollum as Ам-Гъл[[labelnote:*]]''[Am-Gull]'', onomatopoeiae for taking a bite and gulping,. respectively[[/labelnote]]. Other translations were not so lucky, such as Dunharrow, which became Черноден[[labelnote:*]]''[Chernoden]'', "Blackday"[[/labelnote]]. The translator sometimes confused Tolkien's etymology, both in ConLang and real-life languages (mostly Celtic or Middle[=/=]Old English) used as TranslationConvention, and [[FromTheLatinIntroDucere used this false etymology as a base for translation]].
** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': While for most ''Transformer'' media names were just transliterated [[labelnote:*]]translation usually causes {{Narm}} and it's hard to adjust a seemingly simple name grammatically while keeping gender, number, prepositions and other stuff correct - for example "Star Destroyer" literally translates to either "destroyer of stars" or "destroyer from the stars" and you have to pick one[[/labelnote]], ''BW'' was an exception. Due to clunky translations, Rattrap, Cheetor, Airazor, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were renamed to Плъхотрон[[labelnote:*]]''[Plăkhotron]'', "Rat-o-''tron''"[[/labelnote]] Леотроп[[labelnote:*]]''[Leotrop]'', inexplicably[[/labelnote]] Стрела[[labelnote:*]]''[Strela]'', "Arrow"[[/labelnote]] Черна Вдовица[[labelnote:*]]''[Cherna Vdovitza]'', "Black Widow"[[/labelnote]] Сребробот[[labelnote:*]]''[Srebrobot]'', "Silver''bot''"[[/labelnote]], respectively; Rhinox, Waspinator, Quickstrike, Depth Charge, Starscream and Optimus Primal had the mundane parts in their names translated, separated and adapted into adjectives where necessary: Носорогс[[labelnote:*]]''[Nosorogs]''[[/labelnote]] Осинатор[[labelnote:*]]''[Osinator]''[[/labelnote]] Бърз Удар[[labelnote:*]]''[Bărz Udar]''[[/labelnote]] Торпедо[[labelnote:*]]''[Torpedo]''[[/labelnote]], Звезден Писък[[labelnote:*]]''[Zvezden Pisăk]'', "Star Scream"[[/labelnote]] and Оптимус Първичен[[labelnote:*]]''[Optimus Părvichen]''[[/labelnote]]; the latter caused some weirdness with the introduction of Optimus Prime, who became Оптимус Първи [[labelnote:*]]''[Optimus Părvi]'', "Optimus the First"[[/labelnote]]. Megatron, Tarantulas, Dinobot, Inferno and, oddly, Rampage and Ravage, had their names unchanged, save for a bit of AccentUponTheWrongSyllable in the case of Tarantulas because in Bulgarian the word "tarantula" has the accent on the U, and the I in Dinobot sounded like "tin".

** Names with R-sounds are typically transliterated to have L-sounds instead due to a lack of R-sounds in Cantonese as a whole, which can lead to some [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike/RealLifeChinese awkward connoctations]] in transliterated names.

** Wade Ripple to Flak Delamare ("Flaque de la mare" ; "Puddle of pond")

** Cinder Lumen to Sandra Lumen (A pun on "Cendre", Ash)

** Clod to Razmotte (from the expression "rase-mottes" , "hedgehopping")

** Robin to Daraen (France; Averted in Canada)

** Clod to Razmotte (from the expression "rase-mottes""hedgehopping")

** Alan and Eddy Ripple: Noé and Océane Delamare ("Noah and Ocean")

** Brook Ripple to Delamare

** Draco Malfoy to Drago Malefoy

** Sybill Trelawney to Sibylle Trelawney

** Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw to Gryffondor, Serpentard, Poufsouffle, and Serdaigle

** Tank to "Crin-Crin"

** Sam to Third Uncle (三叔, ''Sān Shū''). 三 is pronounced like "Sam" in