 The designations of the two components as "Zeta Draconis A" and "B" derives from the convention used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple star systems, and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).Zeta Draconis has the old Arabic name الذئب "al-dhiʼb" "the wolf", given in its feminine form "Al Dhiʼbah" (ذئبة) in Allen (1899) (though he mistranslated it as plural "hyenas", which would be الضباع "al-ḍibāʽ").It shares the dual form of the name, الذئبين "al-dhiʼbayn", with Eta Draconis.