 Both the subspecific name, "dahlii", and the common name, Dahl's whip snake, are in honor of Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.The subspecific name, "schmidtleri", is in honor of German herpetologist Josef Friedrich Schmidtler (born 1942).Σαϊτα (Greek), Saita, Стрелушка (Bulgarian), šilac (Croatian), Za'aman Z'eitani (Hebrew), Ok Yılanı (Turkish).