Why hasn't our solar system been named?

It has, but not by any astronomers. They officially call it, “The Solar System,” which is like Ford executives today calling the model T, “The Car.” Most people that study astronomy, but do not carry the official title of “Astronomer,” call it The Terran System. Terran comes from Latin (Terra) meaning, “of the earth.” Since the earth currently is the only planet in our system that is acknowledged to harbor life, creatures of our planet are referred to as Terrans, and the system is referred to as The Terran System. It really makes more sense from a language perspective, but most astronomers would argue this. The business has never really been known for titling skills in our day, planets and bodies have names like OGLE-2006,BLG19. The Greeks were much more original in naming celestial bodies, like Orion and The Seven Sisters. I’m certain if The Bridges of Madison County had been written by NASA, it would have been called, “Man Made Structures That Span Small Tributaries and Waterways of the Upper Midwest Region.” The Terran System, like The Model T has meaning to more people of our time, that’s why lots of people use it. Is it official, probably not. I’m not telling anyone the correct answer to the question, I’m just reporting the reality of it. A little like calling all the Native Americans, “Indians,” because the ships navigator thought they were in India, and then still calling them Indians 200 years later.

Technically it is named. The name of our star/sun is Sol, hence the solar system. The others in space are generically called star systems, not solar systems.

What androids? And "the Solar System" is its NAME, from Sol, Latin for the Sun.

Our Solar System HAS been named.

Solar System is a proper name be cause both Solar, an adjective, and System, a noun , SHOULD be capitalized. However, you are correct, this is NOT an official IAU name. The Solar System. Is ONE of many planetary systems. The Moon HAS officially been named by the IAU. The Sun has NOT been officially named.

If you do not not acknowledge the authority of the IAU, you could give the Solar System or any planet or moon any name you want, but no one else will understand which specific thing you are talking about and almost everyone is confused and frustrated. Another example is the proper names Jupiter, Zeus AND Nibiru all refer to the SAME planet.

"Solar" is an adjective that comes from "Sol", the Latin name of our star, the Sun.

The Solar system is OUR planetary system, around our Sun.

If you use "Solar system" to talk of other systems, that instantly brands you as a non-astronomer.

Other planetary systems are called... planetary systems, or systems of planets.

("Star system" having already been used for systems of multiple stars).

Each language has (had) a separate name for each planet. Modern astronomy has retained (for the construction of adjectives) the Greek and Latin names. The IAU (International Astronomical Union) also recognizes individual language names:

English :: Greek :: Latin (examples)

Mercury :: Hermes :: Mercurius (mercurial)

Venus :: Aphrodite :: Venus (Venerial, Venusian, Cytherian [dont ask me why])

Earth :: Gaia :: Terra (Terrestrial, geo- as in geometry, geography, apogee and perigee)

Mars :: Ares :: Martius (Martian)

Jupiter :: Zeus :: Iuppiter (perizeus and apozeus)

Saturn :: Chronos :: Saturnus

Uranus :: Ouranos (god of the heaven and husband of Gaia)

Neptune :: Poseidon :: Neptunus

Sun :: Helios :: Sol (heliocentric, perihelion, Solar)

Moon :: Selene :: Luna (selenographic longitude, lunar)

The English word "Sun" comes from a very ancient nordic word meaning "bright"

The English word "Earth" comes from a slightly less ancient nordic word for "the place where we grow food"

The English word "Moon" comes, in a twisted way, from the same root at the word "month".

The OFFICIAL name, in English, of our planet, according to the IAU, is "Earth" (not Terra - that is the Latin name).

Galaxy comes from a Greek word meaning milk (galactos). For a long time, our Galaxy was thought to be the only one in the whole universe. As such, it should always be written with a capital G ("the" Galaxy is our Galaxy).

As other galaxies were finally accepted (despite American efforts to deny their existence), they were given, at first the name of constellations where they were seen in the sky (Andromeda galaxy, Triangulum galaxy) then a name that depended on their shape (the Sombrero galaxy).

Our Galaxy, after this fashion, was called the Milky Way galaxy (with or without the capital G), but that is redundant, as "galaxy" already implies a milky appearance. The "Milky Way" is a name already given to a band of stars that are, individually, too faint to be seen, but together, have just enough light for our eyes-and-brain to perceive a faint band of milky light.

All galaxies are now identified with numbers, depending on the catalog you use to list them.

For the Ancient Greeks (our modern astronomy names come from them), an "aster" was any object seen in the sky (on the celestial sphere), beyond the atmosphere. The English word "star" comes from "aster".

Some of these "aster" were seen to be moving, among the fixed stars, in a predictable way. They were called "wandering stars" (aster planetes) from where we get the modern word "planet".

Others moved randomly and seem to have hair that streamed from a head: they were called "stars with hair" (aster cometes) from which comes our word "comet".

Things "high in the air" (but not in space) were called "meteors". The science that studies what goes on "high in the air" is now called meteorology. In that branch of science, clouds, snow, etc., are called "meteors". For astronomy, the streak of light given off when an object (meteoroid) enters the atmosphere, is also called a meteor. If a piece of this thing survives and falls to the ground, the surviving piece is called a "meteorite" (a mineral that comes from a meteor).

In the old days, when it was thought impossible that objects could fall in from space, it was believed that these rocks condensed in the air; they were called "aeroliths" (stones from the air).

An "asteroid" is an object that "looks like a star" (looks like an aster) = even in the telescopes of the 1850s, they still looked like dots, not like circles. The official name for these objects that are in orbit around the Sun is "minor planets". The word "asteroid" is used for minor planets with orbits within that of Saturn. Minor planets beyond Saturn should not be called "asteroids".

Objects that showed some size, in a 1850 telescope, were called "planetary" because they "looked like planets", even when they had nothing to do with planets (e.g., planetary nebula).

Minor planets are given a name that corresponds to the year of the discovery, the two-week period within that year (a two-letter code) and, if needed, a number corresponding to their order of discovery within that two month period.

1973 EB Was discovered in 1973, during the first half of March (EB). It was the only minor planet discovered during that period (that is why there is no number after "EB")

Once its orbit was firmly established (needs at least three observations, sometimes more), it was given the number 2001 (the 2001st asteroid to have its orbit established).

Once the number is given, the discoverer (in this case, Paul Wild, a Swiss astronomer) is allowed to give it a name (he is not allowed to use his own name nor someone from his immediate family).

He picked the name "Einstein" and it was accepted by the IAU.

Most asteroids are NOT named (discoverers are allowed a maximum of 12 per year, even if they discover a lot more -- and many of them don't have time to bother with the paperwork).

I thought it was Plexis ?

Solar means of Sol, which is the Latin name for our sun. It is named.

It has, its called the Sol system. The name of our Star is Sol.

Incidentally, our planets true name is Terra, not Earth. (Though Terra just means Earth so...)