The article analyses the functioning of proper names in the meme context. Proper names are an organic part of the cultural background, because the onymic landscape of society is reflected in every cultural phenomenon of modern life. The direction of the research is proper names in memeplexes, which reflect the reaction of the society during the global pandemic. A meme is a piece of information transmitted through social channels, characterized by its brevity and rapid spread. Cultural heritage as a unit of information has more coverage and roots if it functions as a meme. A meme is an independent, separate unit of culture that is defined collectively by the speakers themselves. The global Covid-19 pandemic is one of the biggest cultural phenomena of the last century. Globality is conveyed through the use of visual and semantic codes of pop culture that are comprehensible to many users. So, regarding the Internet memes, onymic landscapes of different countries coincide due to the processes of worldwide cultural and social integration. The multi-layeredness of memes is reflected in their ability to absorb, codify, and recontextualize proper names, which in themselves have a memetic character and entail a whole colorful layer of information. Different categories of onyms are used in the creation of memes, so their analysis seems relevant and constitutes the purpose of this investigation. Memes from the time of the coronavirus pandemic served as the object of the research, and their onymic components were the subject. As the research material, memes of this thematic focus in different languages containing onyms were used. Due to a significant number of memes and their variants, the research of memetic trends was chosen. The conducted research established that almost all categories of proper names participated in the process of creating memes on pandemic topics. The use of eleven classes of proper names was recorded, which include ergonyms, anthroponyms, mythonyms, theonyms, cosmonyms, chrononyms, toponyms, ideonyms, gastronyms, zoonyms, phytonyms. According to the prevalence of memetization, the first places are occupied by ergonyms and anthroponyms. The presence of anthroponyms is quite logical, because this is the most common and most influential class of onyms. A large number of ergonyms in the pandemic picture of the world can also be explained by their importance in the life of the society. So, it is quite possible that ergonyms can take the place of one of the central categories of onyms, along with anthroponyms and toponyms. There are isolated cases of gastronyms, zoonyms and phytonyms. We explain such a number by their real peripheral place in the picture of the world and, thus, in people's meme creation.