"The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium
Sorry, a couple more -- uranium isn't the only one.
Uranium is element 92.
Element 93 is named after Neptune: "Neptunium (named for the planet Neptune, the next planet out from Uranus, after which uranium was named) was first discovered by Edwin McMillan and Philip H. Abelson in 1940 in Berkeley, California." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptunium
Element 52 (Tellurium) is named after the Earth: "Tellurium (Latin tellus meaning "earth") was discovered in the 18th century" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurium
There are also two more named after celestial bodies that are not planets.
Element 2 (Helium) is named for the Sun: "Lockyer and English chemist Edward Frankland named the element with the Greek word for the Sun, ἥλιος (helios)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium#History
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