The name "Kiss" was invented by Stanley, who was driving around new york with Simmons and Chris. Criss mentioned that he used to be in a band called Lips, so what about Stanley saying that the name of this band is Kiss? Frehley has now designed this icon to make SS into the image of two lightning bolts. When he was going to write the new team name on the poster outside the club, he found that SS looked like the SS emblem that Germany had banned. Therefore, in order to avoid controversy, most of the album covers and products released by the band from 1979 in Germany have been replaced with an improved version of the LOGO——ZS.

The implication of the band name has always been talked about by people. Some of them say that the name of the band is Knights for Satan, Kinderss, or the abbreviation of Children for Satan. But these statements were denied by Simmons himself.