Meanings of minor planet names: 397001–398000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	397001–397100
	397101–397200
	397201–397300
397278 Arvidson	2006 RE114	Raymond Arvidson (b. 1948), a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. †
397279 Bloomsburg	2006 RF118	The town of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, is home to Bloomsburg University. †
	397301–397400
	397401–397500
	397501–397600
	397601–39700
	397701–397800
	397801–397900
	397901–398000