The star's historical name "Miaplacidus" made its debut on star maps in 1856 when the star atlas "Geography of the Heavens", composed by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, was published. The meaning and linguistic origin of the name remained an enigma for many decades, until William Higgins, a great scholar and expert on star names, surmised that the name "Miaplacidus" is apparently a bilingual combination of Arabic "مياه" "miyāh" for 'waters' and Latin "placidus" for 'placid'. The IAU Working Group on Star Names first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included "Miaplacidus" for this star.