Named in honor of Nadezhda Antonovna Bokhan {1916– }, a staff member of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy in Leningrad during 1944–1957 and 1965–1974, known for her valuable contributions to the study of minor planets and for her investigation on the motion of periodic comet Encke. (M 6060) _ _.
Discovered on 22-8-1977 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.