Named after Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße, which honours Empress Augusta.
The street was named on 6 December 1874 after Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890), wife of Wilhelm I and, from 1871, the first German Empress ('Kaiserin'). The station walls show portraits of her at different ages, alternating with the palaces where she lived: Weimar, Koblenz, Berlin and Babelsberg.