The star bore the traditional names "Alpheratz" () or "Alpherat" and "Sirrah" deriving from the Arabic name, سرة الفرس "the navel of the mare". (سرة alone is ). The word "horse" reflects the star's historical placement in Pegasus. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included "Alpheratz" for this star.