Named after the chaussée and quarter of La Muette, after the Château de la Muette.
French kings had a hunting lodge at La Muette from the Middle Ages; today's château, the fourth of the name, dates from the early 1920s. The origin of 'muette' is disputed: it may refer to the mue (moult) of stags or falcons, or be an old spelling of meute, a pack of hounds.