Named after Mehrower Allee, an avenue named after the village of Mehrow.
Mehrow is a former village east of Berlin, since 2003 part of the municipality of Ahrensfelde in Brandenburg. The street was first called Otto-Winzer-Straße, after the GDR foreign minister Otto Winzer (1902–1975), and the station opened under that name in 1980. On 31 January 1992 both were renamed Mehrower Allee.