Meanings of minor planet names: 445001–446000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	445001–445100
	445101–445200
	445201–445300
	445301–445400
	445401–445500
	445501–445600
	445601–445700
	445701–445800
	445801–445900
	445901–446000
445917 Ola	2012 XF71	Aleksandra Sufa (b. 1998) and Aleksandra Kusiak (b. 1957) are respectively, a close friend and the mother of the first discoverer. Ola is a diminutive of name Aleksandra. †