Named after the parc Monceau, after the old village of Monceau.
The village lay north-west of today's park and was already a small town in the 15th century; in 1731 it had 39 houses, along today's rue de Lévis and rue Léon-Cosnard. The park began as the duc de Chartres's folly, built in 1769–1773 on a plot at 'Mousseau'. In 1830 the village became part of the commune of Batignolles-Monceau, most of which joined Paris in 1860.