The village's name first appears in sources in a 7th-century Medieval Greek text as Στοβων (Stovon).
The name Stob is thought to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *sto-bh-:*stei- ("to stand"), as retained in the Bulgarian word стобор stobor ("fence") and akin to words meaning "pole, pillar" in other Slavic languages (cf.