Union Observatory
This minor planet was named after Theodore Reunert, a mining engineer in South Africa. He was also a member of the "South African Association for the Advancement of Science", supporter of the discovering Union Observatory and a friend of the discoverer, who was the director of the discovering Union Observatory at the time. The observatory's Reunert Telescope, a 9-inch (23 cm) telescope, was also named in his honor in 1927. The official naming citation was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().