 This minor planet was allegedly named after Ulrike von Levetzow (1804–1899), a friend and last love of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who met Ulrike during summertime 1821–1823 in Marienbad, Bohemia.After she declined to marry him, Goethe started writing Marienbad Elegy, one of his finest poems.Lutz Schmadel, the author of the "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names", considers this interpretation the most likely because the discoverer, who studied at Göttingen University, was an expert in German literature.