The name of the old village is thought to mean ‘seven shepherds’.
Siebenhirten was first recorded around 1140/1150 as ‘Subinnirtin’, which is explained as ‘seven shepherds’ – perhaps the first settlers, though that is uncertain. It grew as a village along a single street and stayed an independent municipality in Lower Austria until it became part of Vienna in 1938; since 1954 it belongs to the 23rd district, Liesing.