diff --git a/tokio/src/runtime/builder.rs b/tokio/src/runtime/builder.rs
index b5f23e9c5..71be3de32 100644
--- a/tokio/src/runtime/builder.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/runtime/builder.rs
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ impl Builder {
             max_blocking_threads: 512,
 
             // Default thread name
-            thread_name: std::sync::Arc::new(|| "tokio-runtime-worker".into()),
+            thread_name: std::sync::Arc::new(|| "tokio-rt-worker".into()),
 
             // Do not set a stack size by default
             thread_stack_size: None,