Named after Zingst, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The street was named in 1984 after Zingst. It is the main axis of the ‘Ostseeviertel’ (Baltic quarter), whose streets are mostly named after places on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula; many names here recall the home towns of the building firms from the GDR’s northern regions.