Named after the New York Mets and Willets Point, a name from the Willets family.
‘Mets’ was adopted as shorthand for the club’s corporate name, recalling the Metropolitans, a New York team of 1880–1887. Willets Point takes its name from Willets Point Boulevard; the original Willets Point is the cape at Fort Totten near Bayside, land the government bought from the Willets family in 1857. The station opened in 1927 as Willets Point Boulevard.