Named after Pilgramgasse, which honours the Baroque master builder Franz Anton Pilgram.
The street was formed in 1862 from Bräuhausgasse and Stärkmachergasse and named after Franz Anton Pilgram (1699–1761), master builder of the Lower Austrian estates and member of Vienna’s outer council. He worked, among other things, on the Augartenpalais and the Elisabethinenkirche. The nearby Pilgrambrücke over the Wien river, opened in 1867, also bears his name.