Named after Greifswalder Straße, which is named after the town of Greifswald.
The street got its name in 1868, after the university town of Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The station opened in 1875 as Weißensee, after a village that then lay outside Berlin. It became Greifswalder Straße in 1946, was renamed Ernst-Thälmann-Park in 1986 after the new housing estate next to it, and took back the street’s name in 1993.