whatsnew

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst

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 - Fixed bug in metadata propagation incorrectly copying DataFrame columns as metadata when the column name overlaps with the metadata name (:issue:`37037`)
 - Fixed metadata propagation in the :class:`Series.dt`, :class:`Series.str` accessors, :class:`DataFrame.duplicated`, :class:`DataFrame.stack`, :class:`DataFrame.unstack`, :class:`DataFrame.pivot`, :class:`DataFrame.append`, :class:`DataFrame.diff`, :class:`DataFrame.applymap` and :class:`DataFrame.update` methods (:issue:`28283`, :issue:`37381`)
 - Fixed metadata propagation when selecting columns with ``DataFrame.__getitem__`` (:issue:`28283`)
+- Bug in :meth:`Index.intersection` with non-:class:`Index` failing to set the correct name on the returned :class:`Index` (:issue:`38111`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Index.union` behaving differently depending on whether operand is an :class:`Index` or other list-like (:issue:`36384`)
 - Passing an array with 2 or more dimensions to the :class:`Series` constructor now raises the more specific ``ValueError`` rather than a bare ``Exception`` (:issue:`35744`)
 - Bug in ``dir`` where ``dir(obj)`` wouldn't show attributes defined on the instance for pandas objects (:issue:`37173`)