The mountain's name translates to cheesemaker's ridge and is properly the name of the ridge ascending towards it from the north, beginning at Ruggschöpf at about 1,800 m and was only transferred to the peak when the seven Churfirsten were systematized in the late 19th or early 20th century; in the 19th century, there was also a fashion of etymologizing the name of the Churfirsten range as Kurfürsten prince-electors, which occasionally inspired a name variant Kaiserruck emperor's back for Chäserrugg.