Named after Savignyplatz, which honours the jurist Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861).
Savigny was a law professor, rector of the Berlin university in 1812/13 and Prussian minister for the revision of laws; he is regarded as the founder of the Historical School of Law. The square, already shown in the Hobrecht Plan of 1862, was named after him in 1887. Berliners stress his name on the second syllable, not the first. The station opened in 1896.