The lake shown on the map is one of a series of lakes which all have individual names in Southern Tutchone. Collectively they are called Hutshi Lakes in English. Many Southern Tutchone prefer the spelling Hutchi but Hutshi appears on maps. The Southern Tutchone name for this particular lake is pronounced and translated in more than one way. Mrs. Bessie Crow suggests that the name refers to a type of whitefish (chu yäna) found in this lake.

The name Hutshi is from the Tlingit language. Until recently it was thought to be from Hûch’i Âyi, meaning ‘the last lake’, but John Adamson gives the name as Hûch’i-àyí ‘the last one’ referring to packs. Hutshi was an important trade centre on the old Chilkat trail to the interior.