Named after Storkower Straße, which honours the small town of Storkow.
The street was named before 1919 after Storkow (Mark), a small town south-east of Berlin. The town’s name is often linked with the stork (Storch), which appears on its coat of arms, but it is probably Slavic, from ‘Sturkuowe’, a path through a marsh. The station opened in 1881 as Zentralviehhof, after the central cattle market and slaughterhouse beside it, and has been called Storkower Straße since 1977.