Meanings of minor planet names: 261001–262000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
	261001–261100
	261101–261200
	261201–261300
261291 Fucecchio	2005 UC159	Fucecchio, a historic town located midway between Pisa and Florence. †
	261301–261400
	261401–261500
	261501–261600
	261601–261700
261690 Jodorowsky	2005 YU210	Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929), a Chilean-French film-maker, playwright, actor, author, musician and comics writer. †
	261701–261800
	261801–261900
	261901–262000
261930 Moorhead	2006 KF138	James Marshall Moorhead (b. 1940), an American-Canadian astronomer. †
261936 Liulin	2006 OR2	Liu Lin (b. 1936), a professor at China's Nanjing University. †