 The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" assumes a standard albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the parent body of the Flora family – and calculates a diameter of 6.51 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.1.This minor planet was named by the discoverer in 1920 () after German astronomer, college and friend, Max Wolf (1863–1932), a professor of astronomy at Heidelberg University and founder and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory, who discovered several novae, comets and 248 minor planets.The official naming citation was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().