Could have been named columbium

Could have been named wolfram (hangs onto this name with its symbol)

Could have been named aldebaranium or ytterbia

Could have been named cassiopium or lutecia

Could have been named panchromium, erythronium, or rionium (after its discoverer del Río)

Could have been named kurchatovium or dubnium, its interim name was unnilquadium

Could have been named hahnium, joliotium, or neilsbohrium, its interim name was unnilpentium

Could have been named nielsbohrium, its interim name was unnilseptium

Controversial because its namesake was still alive when it was discovered, could have been named rutherfordium, its interim name was unnilhexium

Could have been named hahnium, its interim name was unniloctium

No other names were proposed, but it was given an interim name of unnilennium before its name was confirmed in 1997