 The name of the settlement was changed from "Nemška vas" (literally, 'German village') to "Slovenska vas" (literally, 'Slovene village') in 1955.The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove German elements from toponyms.According to Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, the original name of the village is a reference to German and Carniolan refugees that fled here after an attack by the Venetians.