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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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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| 40101–40200 | ||
| 40106 Erben | 1998 QW5 | Karel Jaromír Erben, 19th-century Czech author, poet, and collector of folk songs, rhymes and fairy tales † |
| 40201–40300 | ||
| 40206 Lhenice | 1998 SB36 | Lhenice, South Bohemia, Czech market town † |
| 40227 Tahiti | 1998 SR145 | Tahiti, the largest island in French Polynesia, where the British astronomer Charles Green observed the 1769 transit of Venus † |
| 40301–40400 | ||
| 40328 Dow | 1999 MK | Marjorie Dow Healy, the discoverer's mother † |
| 40401–40500 | ||
| 40409 Taichikato | 1999 RS2 | Taichi Kato, Japanese astronomer † |
| 40410 Příhoda | 1999 RJ3 | Pavel Príhoda, Czech author and astronomy popularizer, editor-in-chief of the The Czech Astronomical Yearbook † |
| 40436 Sylviecoyaud | 1999 RQ32 | Sylvie Coyaud, French-Italian scientific reporter and amateur astronomer † |
| 40440 Dobrovský | 1999 RU34 | Josef Dobrovský, 18th-19th century Czech linguist, who codified the rules of the written Czech language † |
| 40441 Jungmann | 1999 RW34 | Josef Jungmann, 18th-19th century Czech poet, publicist and literary historian, author of the Czech-German Dictionary † |
| 40444 Palacký | 1999 RV35 | Frantisek Palacký, 19th-century Czech historian and politician † |
| 40457 Williamkuhn | 1999 RG43 | William Kuhn, American amateur astronomer, designer of the Orange County Astronomers 57 cm Kuhn telescope at Anza, California † |
| 40459 Rektorys | 1999 RK43 | Karel Rektorys, Czech mathematician and professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague † |
| 40701–40800 | ||
| 40764 Gerhardiser | 1999 TA16 | Gerhard Iser, German amateur astronomer and mentor of one of the discoverers † |
| 40901–41000 | ||
| 40994 Tekaridake | 1999 UZ2 | Tekaridake, a mountain in the northern part of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan † |
| Preceded by 39,001–40,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 40,001–41,000 |
Succeeded by 41,001–42,000 |