"whence the name" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about a source of a particular name, as in "We are uncertain whence the name 'Smith' originated."
North of Latium lived tribes ethnically akin to the Latins, with principal centres at Capena, Narce, and Falerii (whence the name Faliscans).
After a trip to Constantinople and Mount Athos, he founded his own monastery beside the Sora River (whence the name Sorsky).
Prince Rupert, cousin of Charles, was the first governor of the company, whence the name.
Its deity was Min, in Hellenistic times identified with Pan, whence the name Panopolis, meaning "city of Pan".
The earliest-known American Indians of the Guianas called the land Surinen, whence the name Suriname originated.
Between 409 and 415 a great many of these barbarians arrived in Spain and settled in Lusitania (Suebi) and in Baetica (Vandals, whence the name Andalusia).
Fittingly, the farm lies in the shadow of the oldest Indian midden (prehistoric refuse mound) in California, a pile consisting largely of discarded abalone shells; it once belonged to the Alones--whence the name abalone.
Today Crystal Bridges has a spacious and comfortable, if rather coarsely detailed, home set into a beautiful ravine carved by the Crystal Spring, from whence comes the name.
The capacious bin gives you a lot of vacuuming time between empties, and the big ball from whence comes the name offers easy maneuvering around corners with the standard floor and carpet brush.
The victim of this syndrome has a microcephalic head, diverse malformations, a ceiling IQ of 35 and, from whence derives the name of the genetic disorder, a plaintive cry, bringing to mind a kitten in pain.
The basic idea of this equivalence is owed to Hume (whence the current name of the principle); and it had of course been exploited to great effect by Cantor, well before Frege wrote the Grundlagen.[15] Without the use of one-one correspondences in this way, Cantor would not have been able to motivate his later groundbreaking idea that there are distinct infinite numbers (see Cantor 1891).
