is named after the Greek goddess Eris (Greek Ἔρις), a personification of strife and discord.

[31]
 The name was proposed by the Caltech Team on September 6, 2006, and it was assigned on
September 13, 2006,[32] following an unusually long period in which the object was known by
the provisional designation 2003 UB313, which was granted automatically by the IAU under their
naming protocols for minor planets.
Like the moons Io and Mimas, and for the same reason, the name Eris has two competing
pronunciations, with a 'long' and a 'short' e.[33] The literary English pronunciation of the goddess
is /ˈɪərɪs/ with a long e.[6] However, Brown and his students[34] use something closer to Latin and
Greek, /ˈɛrɪs/ with a short e (ignoring the Great Vowel Shift that affects Classical names in
English).[7]
The Greek and Latin oblique stem of the name is Erid-,[35] as can be seen in Italian Eride and
Russian Эрида Erida, so the adjective in English is Eridian /ɛˈrɪdiən/.[8][9]

Xena[edit]
Due to uncertainty over whether the object would be classified as a planet or a minor planet,
because different nomenclature procedures apply to these different classes of objects,[36] the
decision on what to name the object had to wait until after the August 24, 2006 IAU ruling.[37] As a
result, for a time the object became known to the wider public as Xena.

Artist's impression of Eris and its moon

"Xena" was an informal name used internally by the discovery team. It was inspired by the title
character of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess. The discovery team had reportedly
saved the nickname "Xena" for the first body they discovered that was larger than Pluto.
According to Brown,