It also bore the traditional names "Alula Australis" (and erroneously "Alula Australe"). "Alula" (shared with Nu Ursae Majoris) comes from the Arabic phrase 'the First Spring' and "Australis" is Latin for 'southern'. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included "Alula Australis" for this star.