Meanings of minor planet names: 406001–407000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	406001–406100
	406101–406200
	406201–406300
	406301–406400
	406401–406500
	406501–406600
	406601–406700
	406701–406800
	406801–406900
	406901–407000
406957 Kochetova	2009 OK5	Oľga Kochetova (b. 1954), a staff scientist at the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. †