 While the reason for the present name is unknown, the description of a homicide in the eastern end of the alley in 1622 gives an idea of the reputation it must have had.Arguably, it has been suggested the current name was a jocular corruption of the name of the innkeeper Jochum Fryck (–1714).The present name was not used in the 17th century, and the man in question was at his death associated with a tavern on Södermalm.