diff --git a/libc-test/src/functional/pthread_getname_np.c b/libc-test/src/functional/pthread_getname_np.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..19a46c61a70d64ea9bfbaa6ef426ca33a8d65fbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libc-test/src/functional/pthread_getname_np.c
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <pthread.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#define NAMELEN 16
+
+#define errExitEN(en, msg) \
+            do { errno = en; perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \
+        } while (0)
+
+static void *threadfunc(void *parm)
+{
+    sleep(5);          // allow main program to set the thread name
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+    pthread_t thread;
+    int rc;
+    char thread_name[NAMELEN];
+    char set_thread_name[] = "THREADFOO";
+    char default_name[] = "pthread_getname_np";
+    
+    rc = pthread_getname_np(pthread_self(), thread_name, NAMELEN);
+    if (rc != 0) errExitEN(rc, "pthread_getname_np failed");
+    if(strcmp(thread_name, default_name) != 0) perror("pthread name comparison failed");
+
+    rc = pthread_create(&thread, NULL, threadfunc, NULL);
+    if (rc != 0) errExitEN(rc, "pthread_create failed");
+
+    rc = pthread_setname_np(thread, (argc > 1) ? argv[1] : set_thread_name);
+    if (rc != 0) errExitEN(rc, "pthread_setname_np failed");
+
+    sleep(2);
+
+    rc = pthread_getname_np(thread, thread_name, (argc > 2) ? atoi(argv[1]) : NAMELEN);
+    if (rc != 0) errExitEN(rc, "pthread_getname_np failed");
+    if(strcmp(thread_name, set_thread_name) != 0) perror("pthread name comparison failed");
+
+    rc = pthread_join(thread, NULL);
+    if (rc != 0) errExitEN(rc, "pthread_join failed");
+
+    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}
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diff --git a/libc-test/src/functional/test_src_functional.gni b/libc-test/src/functional/test_src_functional.gni
index a6173354043cd267f53e4296e4f6c75be6e0c1ca..85d0754386a4ce1b7586812b73fead5168254be1 100644
--- a/libc-test/src/functional/test_src_functional.gni
+++ b/libc-test/src/functional/test_src_functional.gni
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ functional_list = [
   "pthread_mutex_pi",
   "pthread_robust",
   "pthread_tsd",
+  "pthread_getname_np",
   "qsort",
   "random",
   "search_hsearch",
diff --git a/musl_src.gni b/musl_src.gni
index 7f1b005a851400d7254a62f58d8d7e92eaaf21fa..958bb000ec78e73d8673d61662af0d93635f07e5 100644
--- a/musl_src.gni
+++ b/musl_src.gni
@@ -1293,6 +1293,7 @@ musl_src_file = [
   "src/thread/pthread_getattr_np.c",
   "src/thread/pthread_getconcurrency.c",
   "src/thread/pthread_getcpuclockid.c",
+  "src/thread/pthread_getname_np.c",
   "src/thread/pthread_getschedparam.c",
   "src/thread/pthread_getspecific.c",
   "src/thread/pthread_join.c",
@@ -1939,6 +1940,7 @@ musl_src_porting_file = [
   "src/time/strftime.c",
   "src/time/strptime.c",
   "src/time/time_impl.h",
+  "src/thread/pthread_getname_np.c",
 ]
 
 musl_inc_hook_files = [
diff --git a/porting/linux/user/include/pthread.h b/porting/linux/user/include/pthread.h
index ea9833282a89b885d6961fbb6d5d13095b12c0d6..45184fced76adaf4b83f071e7a2a2211ca4d94d7 100644
--- a/porting/linux/user/include/pthread.h
+++ b/porting/linux/user/include/pthread.h
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ int pthread_getaffinity_np(pthread_t, size_t, struct cpu_set_t *);
 int pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_t, size_t, const struct cpu_set_t *);
 int pthread_getattr_np(pthread_t, pthread_attr_t *);
 int pthread_setname_np(pthread_t, const char *);
+int pthread_getname_np(pthread_t, char *, size_t);
 int pthread_getattr_default_np(pthread_attr_t *);
 int pthread_setattr_default_np(const pthread_attr_t *);
 int pthread_tryjoin_np(pthread_t, void **);
diff --git a/porting/linux/user/src/thread/pthread_getname_np.c b/porting/linux/user/src/thread/pthread_getname_np.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d99673a80bf6c601fc84d144201ab97218e5c8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/porting/linux/user/src/thread/pthread_getname_np.c
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+
+#include "pthread_impl.h"
+
+int pthread_getname_np(pthread_t thread, char *name, size_t len)
+{
+    int fd, cs, status = 0;
+    char f[sizeof "/proc/self/task//comm" + 3*sizeof(int)];
+
+    if (len < 16) return ERANGE;
+
+    if (thread == pthread_self())
+        return prctl(PR_GET_NAME, (unsigned long)name, 0UL, 0UL, 0UL) ? errno : 0;
+
+    snprintf(f, sizeof f, "/proc/self/task/%d/comm", thread->tid);
+    pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE, &cs);
+    if ((fd = open(f, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)) < 0 || (len = read(fd, name, len)) < 0) status = errno;
+    else name[len-1] = 0; 
+    /* remove trailing new line only if successful*/
+    /*It seems that Linux indeed always adds a newline, so removing it
+    unconditionally seems fine.*/
+
+    if (fd >= 0) close(fd);
+    pthread_setcancelstate(cs, 0);
+    return status;
+}
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