Named after Hönow, the neighbouring village in Brandenburg.
The station lies in Berlin’s Hellersdorf but bears the name of the village just across the boundary, to which its site belonged until a boundary adjustment in 1990. Hönow, probably first settled by Wends, was first recorded in 1375–1377 in the land book of Charles IV; today it belongs to the municipality of Hoppegarten. The station opened in 1989.