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.
The name of the small atoll was given by Otto von Kotzebue, a Baltic German naval officer serving in the Imperial Russian Navy, in honor of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.