Named after Attilastraße, which honours Attila, king of the Huns.
Attila († 453) ruled the Huns and lives on as Etzel in medieval works such as the Nibelungenlied. The street was given his name around 1909. The station opened in 1895 as Mariendorf, because it then lay in the municipality of Mariendorf, and was renamed Attilastraße in 1992.