The article is dedicated to the problem of rendering of eloquent proper names in the translations of fiction writing. Attention is paid to the Hungarian and English translations of The Black Council historical novel by Panteleimon Kulish. The author has informed the editor of the magazine Moskvityanin of M. Pogodin on October 15, 1843. Kulish promises to create a whole gang of Cossacks in the novel, who receive eloquent nominations with interesting, diverse, associative characterization of the heroes encoded in them. In literary translation one can find relatively few such examples when speaking proper names are translated and not transmitted by transcription or transliteration. Many researchers consider the translation of speaking names to be impossible mission or super task. Ukrainian literature is extremely rich in works, the literary and onomastic analysis of which will certainly lead to new explanations and open new nuances in their interpretation. The examples of onyms rendering in the Hungarian translation, created by Anna Bojtár in 1978, submitted in the article, are the evidences of the fact that in many cases the semantic and associative meanings of onyms are lost, and the translator finds the appropriate solution when translating them only in some cases. The decisions of Yurii Stepan Nestor Lutskyi and his wife Moira in the English abridged translation of the novel, created almost at the same time, in 1973, are not much different. Nowadays scholars pay much more attention to the problems of translation of literary onomastics. More and more often there are the proposals to use the exact, adequate, appropriate, apt equivalent of eloquent names in the target language along with the recognition of their partial or complete untranslatability. Various possibilities of this issue solving can be found in scientific articles devoted to the translation of eloquent proper names of literary works. In reality, the choice of one or another variant of reproduction of eloquent proper names in the translation is motivated by various grammatical, lexical, semantic, connotative, culturological, ethnic, historical, pragmatic and other factors, among which the subjective desires of translators are also significant.