 "ξ Persei" (Latinised to "Xi Persei") is the star's Bayer designation.It bore the traditional name "Menkib", "Menchib", "Menkhib" or "Al Mankib", from "Mankib al Thurayya" (Arabic for "shoulder" [of the Pleiades]).In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalogue and standardize proper names for stars.