Meanings of minor planet names: 450001–451000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	450001–450100
	450101–450200
	450201–450300
	450301–450400
	450401–450500
	450501–450600
	450601–450700
	450701–450800
	450801–450900
	450901–451000
450931 Coculescu	2008 EX154	Nicolae Coculescu (1866-1952), a Romanian astronomer who founded and became the first director of the Bucharest Astronomical Observatory in 1908. †