The WGSN decided to attribute proper names to individual stars rather than entire multiple-star systems. In the table below, unless indicated by a "†", the "modern proper name" is the name approved by the WGSN and entered in the List of IAU-approved Star Names or otherwise approved by the IAU. An additional two star names were approved on 4 April 2022, bringing the current total to 451 named stars. The approved names of 112 exoplanets and their host stars were published on 17 December 2019, with an additional pair of names (for the star HAT-P-21 and its planet) approved on 1 March 2020. In 2019, the IAU organised its IAU 100 NameExoWorlds campaign to name exoplanets and their host stars. All 336 names are included in the current List of IAU-approved Star Names. These were listed in a table of 102 stars included in the WGSN's second bulletin, dated November 2016. Further batches of names were approved on 21 August, 12 September, 5 October, and 6 November 2016. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee Working Group on the Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites during the 2015 NameExoWorlds campaign and recognized by the WGSN. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. Main article: IAU Working Group on Star Names "Avior" for Epsilon Carinae (1930), and a number of stars named after people (mostly in the 20th century).
In addition to the limited number of traditional star names, there were some coined in modern times, e.g. The same holds for Chinese star names, where most stars are enumerated within their asterisms, with a handful of exceptions such as 織女 ('weaving girl') ( Vega). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares', i.e., red-hued like Mars), Canopus (of uncertain origin), Alphard ('the solitary one'), Regulus ('kinglet') and arguably Aldebaran ('the follower' ) and Procyon ('preceding the dog' ). Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part of the constellation they are found in thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Traditional astronomy tends to group stars into constellations or asterisms and give proper names to those, not to individual stars. Of the roughly 10,000 stars visible to the naked eye, only a few hundred have been given proper names in the history of astronomy. As of April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars. IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016.
These names of stars that have either been approved by the International Astronomical Union or which have been in somewhat recent use.
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