 In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars.The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included "Wazn" for this star.In Chinese, (), meaning "Son", refers to an asterism consisting of Beta Columbae and Lambda Columbae.