Yes. "Screen" is named after an analog optical process it imitates.

A common explanation is projecting multiple photographic slides onto the same projection screen: each projected image adds light, so the combined result gets brighter rather than darker. That matches the behavior of Screen mode, which lightens the image.

A more technically accurate darkroom analogy is combining negatives in an enlarger (or similarly in scanning workflows). In both cases, the effect is based on how transmitted light combines, producing the characteristic brightening associated with the Screen formula.

So the name comes from traditional photographic/image projection practice: it describes a light-adding, brightening blend, as if multiple images were being combined on a screen.