 On 14 May 1907, the body's observation arc begins as () at Heidelberg; just two nights after its first observation, and more than 11 years prior to its official discovery observation.According to "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955, and adopted by Lutz Schmadel in the "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names", this minor planet was named after the Norse goddess described as the "incarnation of the nature", and as "a seer who knows the origin and the destination of all things" ().The discoverer, Max Wolf, likely adopted the name from Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen", which is loosely based on figures from the Norse sagas.