‘Südende’ means ‘south end’: the name of a 19th-century villa colony.
Südende was laid out from 1873 as a villa colony by the Terrain-Gesellschaft Südende, on land that had belonged to two Mariendorf farmers; the name was fixed on 19 June 1873. Berlin also has a Westend and a Nordend. The station opened in 1880 and from 1882 to 1899 was called Südende-Lankwitz. Almost all of the colony was destroyed in the Second World War.