Named in honor of David Vokrouhlický (b. 1966), a Czech physicist at Charles University, Prague, who has developed new physical models for the nongravitational forces acting on small minor planets and meteoroids. In particular, Vokrouhlický has studied the so-called Yarkovsky effect, which causes a slow orbital drift into main-belt resonances and is an important mechanism for transporting meteorites to Earth. Name proposed and citation written by P. Farinella.
Discovered on 20-11-1981 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.