BUG: inconsistent name-retention in Series ops

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst

@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ Numeric
 - Bug in :class:`Series` where two :class:`Series` each have a :class:`DatetimeIndex` with different timezones having those indexes incorrectly changed when performing arithmetic operations (:issue:`33671`)
 - Bug in :meth:`pd._testing.assert_almost_equal` was incorrect for complex numeric types (:issue:`28235`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.__rmatmul__` error handling reporting transposed shapes (:issue:`21581`)
+- Bug in :class:`Series` flex arithmetic methods where the result when operating with a ``list``, ``tuple`` or ``np.ndarray`` would have an incorrect name (:issue:`36760`)
 - Bug in :class:`IntegerArray` multiplication with ``timedelta`` and ``np.timedelta64`` objects (:issue:`36870`)
 
 Conversion

pandas/conftest.py

@@ -677,6 +677,43 @@ def all_arithmetic_operators(request):
     return request.param
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(
+    params=[
+        operator.add,
+        ops.radd,
+        operator.sub,
+        ops.rsub,
+        operator.mul,
+        ops.rmul,
+        operator.truediv,
+        ops.rtruediv,
+        operator.floordiv,
+        ops.rfloordiv,
+        operator.mod,
+        ops.rmod,
+        operator.pow,
+        ops.rpow,
+        operator.eq,
+        operator.ne,
+        operator.lt,
+        operator.le,
+        operator.gt,
+        operator.ge,
+        operator.and_,
+        ops.rand_,
+        operator.xor,
+        ops.rxor,
+        operator.or_,
+        ops.ror_,
+    ]
+)
+def all_binary_operators(request):
+    """
+    Fixture for operator and roperator arithmetic, comparison, and logical ops.
+    """
+    return request.param
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(
     params=[
         operator.add,

pandas/core/ops/__init__.py

@@ -310,9 +310,8 @@ def arith_method_SERIES(cls, op, special):
 
     @unpack_zerodim_and_defer(op_name)
     def wrapper(left, right):
-
-        left, right = _align_method_SERIES(left, right)
         res_name = get_op_result_name(left, right)
+        left, right = _align_method_SERIES(left, right)
 
         lvalues = extract_array(left, extract_numpy=True)
         rvalues = extract_array(right, extract_numpy=True)
@@ -361,8 +360,8 @@ def bool_method_SERIES(cls, op, special):
 
     @unpack_zerodim_and_defer(op_name)
     def wrapper(self, other):
-        self, other = _align_method_SERIES(self, other, align_asobject=True)
         res_name = get_op_result_name(self, other)
+        self, other = _align_method_SERIES(self, other, align_asobject=True)
 
         lvalues = extract_array(self, extract_numpy=True)
         rvalues = extract_array(other, extract_numpy=True)
@@ -385,13 +384,17 @@ def flex_wrapper(self, other, level=None, fill_value=None, axis=0):
         if axis is not None:
             self._get_axis_number(axis)
 
+        res_name = get_op_result_name(self, other)
+
         if isinstance(other, ABCSeries):
             return self._binop(other, op, level=level, fill_value=fill_value)
         elif isinstance(other, (np.ndarray, list, tuple)):
             if len(other) != len(self):
                 raise ValueError("Lengths must be equal")
             other = self._constructor(other, self.index)
-            return self._binop(other, op, level=level, fill_value=fill_value)
+            result = self._binop(other, op, level=level, fill_value=fill_value)
+            result.name = res_name
+            return result
         else:
             if fill_value is not None:
                 self = self.fillna(fill_value)

pandas/tests/series/test_arithmetic.py

@@ -699,3 +699,45 @@ def test_datetime_understood(self):
         result = series - offset
         expected = pd.Series(pd.to_datetime(["2011-12-26", "2011-12-27", "2011-12-28"]))
         tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "names",
+    [
+        ("foo", None, None),
+        ("Egon", "Venkman", None),
+        ("NCC1701D", "NCC1701D", "NCC1701D"),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("box", [list, tuple, np.array, pd.Index, pd.Series, pd.array])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("flex", [True, False])
+def test_series_ops_name_retention(flex, box, names, all_binary_operators):
+    # GH#33930 consistent name renteiton
+    op = all_binary_operators
+
+    if op is ops.rfloordiv and box in [list, tuple]:
+        pytest.xfail("op fails because of inconsistent ndarray-wrapping GH#28759")
+
+    left = pd.Series(range(10), name=names[0])
+    right = pd.Series(range(10), name=names[1])
+
+    right = box(right)
+    if flex:
+        name = op.__name__.strip("_")
+        if name in ["and", "rand", "xor", "rxor", "or", "ror"]:
+            # Series doesn't have these as flex methods
+            return
+        result = getattr(left, name)(right)
+    else:
+        result = op(left, right)
+
+    if box is pd.Index and op.__name__.strip("_") in ["rxor", "ror", "rand"]:
+        # Index treats these as set operators, so does not defer
+        assert isinstance(result, pd.Index)
+        return
+
+    assert isinstance(result, Series)
+    if box in [pd.Index, pd.Series]:
+        assert result.name == names[2]
+    else:
+        assert result.name == names[0]