The first 13 Bessarabian colonies were initially designated by the number of the piece of land in the general plan of the land survey on which they were located. Krasna was Steppe No. 7, often referred to as the “Catholic Colony”. From the sober numbers, one very soon moved on to names, mostly derived from Russian personalities from the Tsarist family or other princely dynasties.
A document from 1819 on the division of Protestant colonies into parishes (Welfare Committee of Foreign Settlers of South Russia, Departmental No. 15 Archive No. 1245 FILE about pastors dividing the Bessarabian colonies into two parishes, Odessa State Historical Archive Fond 6 Inventory 1 file 1245) shows that Krasna was called Konstantinovskaya/ Konstantinschutz soon after its foundation. This is also evident from the entries in Krasna's baptismal register in the years 1816-1817. It is not clear who initiated this naming.

According to the community report of 1848 (for wording see section 10.1 Documents and Reports from Government and Administration) Krasna was initially called “Elisabeta” and only later “Konstantinschutz”. Since Tarutino was also called Elisabetha, it would be unusual for two neighbouring places to have had the same name. Therefore, there is a need for clarification for this statement:

• If the author has his information from people from the time around 1815 itself, it is conceivable that the people of Krasna actually called their place Elisabetha at first and they gave up this name again or had to give it up by order of the authorities because the neighbouring village was also called that. In the municipal report of Tarutino it is expressly stated that the authorities accepted this name there.
• If the author's statement is based on entries in the Krasna church register with the place name Elsabetha, it could be a misunderstanding, because the persons concerned demonstrably actually came from Tarutino/Elisabetha and not from the “Catholic colony”.

In 1818, all colonies founded by then received their later names, so-called memorial names, by order of the Tsar. Possibly the official naming was connected with Tsar Alexander I's visit to Bessarabia. The names were derived from places and rivers where the allies Russia, Prussia and Austria had fought victorious battles against Napoleon in the wars of liberation from 1812 to 1815 or had been successful with other important actions. This was also done for Katzbach and Dennewitz, which were founded later (after 1820), so that a total of 15 Bessarabian colonies were given a name with a historical reference¹⁾, e.g. Tarutino, Borodino, Beresina, Arzis, Brienne, Paris, Leipzig, Teplitz, Katzbach, Krasna.

The name Krasna comes from Krasnoye (Krasnoi, Krasnye, Krasnaoi), located about 70 km southwest of Smolensk, where the French lost six thousand dead and well over 10,000 prisoners on 17 November 1812, the Russians 700 men. The name Krasna appears in the Krasna baptismal register in 1818, in 1817 it is still referred to as the “Catholic Colony”.

Krasna kept its name until the resettlement in 1940. The spelling was in German = Krasna, in Russian = Krasnoe/Krasninskaja, in Romanian = Crasna.