Named after Gehrenseestraße, which takes its name from the Gehrensee, a small pond.
The street, called Falkenberger Straße until 1980, was renamed after the Gehrensee in Falkenberg: despite ‘See’ (lake) in its name, it covers just over one hectare and is really more of a pond. During construction the station’s working title was Gartenstadt, after the nearby garden city of Hohenschönhausen; the name Gehrenseestraße was fixed around 1982. It opened in 1984.