Named after the rue and boulevard de Bercy, which cross here.
Both recall Bercy, a commune from 1790 until most of it joined Paris in 1860. The rue de Bercy was the village's main street; the boulevard follows the old tax wall. Wine warehouses stood just outside that wall, to avoid the city's toll gates; barrels came by boat on the Seine. A charter of 1134 already names the place insula de Bercilliis.