[BowBun]

I'm not sure if you're a native French speaker, but most of the names in Asterix & Obelix are puns and worth exploring!

- Panoramix (panorama) - Abraracourcix (a bras racourcis) - Bonnemine, Assurancetourix, Agecanonix, etc.

[riffraff]

I'm italian, so some of the things made sense from the start (Panoramix, Asterix and many of the one-off characters which I can't recall) but some have always been obscure :)

[Tainnor]

They translate most of those names differently in other languages, in German, they use German puns, etc. (strangely enough, Idefix wasn't translated).