diff --git a/packages/nimble-components/src/list-option/index.ts b/packages/nimble-components/src/list-option/index.ts
index 9911ea3950..551f250fe3 100644
--- a/packages/nimble-components/src/list-option/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nimble-components/src/list-option/index.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
 import { observable, attr } from '@microsoft/fast-element';
 import { styles } from './styles';
 import { template } from './template';
-import type { DropdownOwner } from '../patterns/dropdown/types';
+import type { ListOptionOwner } from '../patterns/dropdown/types';
 
 declare global {
     interface HTMLElementTagNameMap {
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ export class ListOption extends FoundationListboxOption {
         }
     }
 
-    private isDropdownOwner(parent: unknown): parent is DropdownOwner {
-        return typeof (parent as DropdownOwner).registerOption === 'function';
+    private isDropdownOwner(parent: unknown): parent is ListOptionOwner {
+        return typeof (parent as ListOptionOwner).registerOption === 'function';
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/nimble-components/src/patterns/dropdown/types.ts b/packages/nimble-components/src/patterns/dropdown/types.ts
index 2523ae291e..6bdd8135ac 100644
--- a/packages/nimble-components/src/patterns/dropdown/types.ts
+++ b/packages/nimble-components/src/patterns/dropdown/types.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ export type DropdownAppearance =
  * reactive form, where the form value is set to an option immediately after
  * dynamically adding it.
  */
-export interface DropdownOwner {
+export interface ListOptionOwner {
     registerOption: (option: ListOption) => void;
 }
diff --git a/packages/nimble-components/src/select/index.ts b/packages/nimble-components/src/select/index.ts
index 060bde08d5..44830994e1 100644
--- a/packages/nimble-components/src/select/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nimble-components/src/select/index.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import {
 } from '@microsoft/fast-web-utilities';
 import { arrowExpanderDown16X16 } from '@ni/nimble-tokens/dist/icons/js';
 import { styles } from './styles';
-import { DropdownAppearance, DropdownOwner } from '../patterns/dropdown/types';
+import { DropdownAppearance, ListOptionOwner } from '../patterns/dropdown/types';
 import { errorTextTemplate } from '../patterns/error/template';
 import type { ErrorPattern } from '../patterns/error/types';
 import { iconExclamationMarkTag } from '../icons/exclamation-mark';
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ const isNimbleListOption = (el: Element): el is ListOption => {
  */
 export class Select
     extends FormAssociatedSelect
-    implements ErrorPattern, DropdownOwner {
+    implements ErrorPattern, ListOptionOwner {
     @attr
     public appearance: DropdownAppearance = DropdownAppearance.underline;