The name Atoll Bellinghausen or more rarely Bellingshausen was given to this small atoll by Otto von Kotzebue, an officer and navigator of Baltic German descent in the Imperial Russian Navy, in honour of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
Otto von Kotzebue, a Baltic German naval officer serving in the Imperial Russian Navy, named this tiny atoll "Atoll Bellinghausen" or "Bellingshausen" in tribute to Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.