Named after Nossen, a small town in Saxony.
When it was laid out, the street was named Gerhart-Eisler-Straße, after the journalist and GDR politician; it became Nossener Straße in 1992. Nossen’s name is of Slavic origin: it is derived from the Sorbian ‘Nosno’, which can be translated as ‘settlement on a jutting rock nose’.