As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.
Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
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| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
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| 39301–39400 | ||
| 39335 Caccin | 2002 AR12 | Bruno Caccin, Italian astronomer † |
| 39336 Mariacapria | 2002 AA13 | Maria Teresa Capria, Italian astronomer † |
| 39382 Opportunity | 2696 P-L | Opportunity, Mars Exploration Rover B † |
| 39401–39500 | ||
| 39405 Mosigkau | 1063 T-1 | Mosigkau castle, near Dessau, Germany, a relic of the Rococo period, built between 1752 and 1757 as a summer residence for Princess Anna Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Dessau † |
| 39415 Janeausten | 4231 T-1 | Jane Austen, English novelist † |
| 39427 Charlottebrontë | 3360 T-2 | Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, best known for Jane Eyre † |
| 39428 Emilybrontë | 4169 T-2 | Emily Brontë, English novelist, who wrote only one novel, Wuthering Heights † |
| 39429 Annebrontë | 4223 T-2 | Anne Brontë, English novelist, the third, last and least well known of the Brontë sisters † |
| 39463 Phyleus | 1973 SZ | Phyleus, son of King Augeas of Elis, and father of Meges, who led the contingent from Dulichium to the Trojan War † |
| 39464 Pöppelmann | 1973 UO5 | Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, 17th-century German architect † |
| 39501–39600 | ||
| 39540 Borchert | 1991 GF11 | Wolfgang Borchert, German poet and writer † |
| 39549 Casals | 1992 DP13 | Pablo Casals, Spanish (Catalan)-American cellist, composer and conductor † |
| 39557 Gielgud | 1992 JG | John Gielgud, British actor † |
| 39558 Kishine | 1992 KC | Junichiro Kishine, Japanese theoretical physicist and amateur astronomer † |
| 39571 Pückler | 1992 SN24 | Herman Graf von Pückler, German landscaper and writer † |
| 39601–39700 | ||
| 39635 Kusatao | 1994 YL | Kusatao Nakamura, Chinese-born Japanese Haiku poet † |
| 39645 Davelharris | 1995 QC10 | David Lowell Harris, 20th-century American astronomer, member of the "pre-LINEAR" observing team at Socorro during 1995–1996 † |
| 39677 Anagaribaldi | 1996 EG | Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva di Garibaldi (Anita Garibaldi), Brazilian-born heroine of the Italian resurgence and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi † |
| 39678 Ammannito | 1996 LQ1 | Eleonora Ammannito, Italian astronomer and space scientist † |
| 39699 Ernestocorte | 1996 TF8 | Ernesto Corte, American entrepreneur, founder of Gamma-Metrics, pioneer in the application of radiation physics to elemental analysis of materials † |
| 39701–39800 | ||
| 39741 Komm | 1997 AT6 | Rudolf Walter Komm, American helioseismologist † |
| 39748 Guccini | 1997 BJ3 | Francesco Guccini, Italian folk composer and singer † |
| 39791 Jameshesser | 1997 PH4 | James E. Hesser, Canadian astronomer † |
| 39799 Hadano | 1997 UO1 | Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan, where the Hadano Astronomical Observatory is located † |
| 39801–39900 | ||
| 39809 Fukuchan | 1997 WB30 | Fukuchan, cartoon character created by Ryuichi Yokoyama † |
| 39849 Giampieri | 1998 CF2 | Giuliano Giampieri, friend of the first discoverer † |
| 39890 Bobstephens | 1998 FA3 | Robert Stephens, American amateur astronomer † |
| 39901–40000 | ||
| 39930 Kalauch | 1998 FR74 | Klaus-Dieter Kalauch, German amateur astronomer and teacher of astronomy, inspiration for the discoverer † |
| 39971 József | 1998 GN10 | Attila József, Hungarian poet † |
| Preceded by 38,001–39,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 39,001–40,000 |
Succeeded by 40,001–41,000 |