Named after Scharnweberstraße, which honours Scharnweber, district administrator of Niederbarnim.
Scharnweber (1816–1894), a lawyer and politician, was Landrat (district administrator) of Niederbarnim, to which this area belonged until 1920, and successfully promoted its transport links. By 1888 the former Tegeler Chaussee bore his name. The station opened in 1958 as ‘Scharnweberstraße (Eichborndamm)’, a name chosen to avoid confusion with the S-Bahn station then called Eichbornstraße.