 The system bore the traditional names of "Marsic", "Marfik" or "Marfak", all of which come from the Arabic لمرفق "Al-Mirfaq" meaning "the elbow", a name (or some derivative of which) it shared with Lambda Ophiuchi.The Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) approved the name "Marsic" for the component Kappa Herculis A on February 1, 2017, and "Marfik" for the primary component of Lambda Ophiuchi on September 12, 2016, and they are both now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.In Chinese, (), meaning "Right Wall of Heavenly Market Enclosure", refers to an asterism which represents eleven old states in China and marks the right borderline of the enclosure, consisting of Kappa Herculis, Beta Herculis, Gamma Herculis, Gamma Serpentis, Beta Serpentis, Delta Serpentis, Alpha Serpentis, Epsilon Serpentis, Delta Ophiuchi, Epsilon Ophiuchi and Zeta Ophiuchi.