diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/README.md b/packages/aws-cdk/README.md
index 7fd8bff8b8057..2450bdc7aa2ed 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/README.md
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/README.md
@@ -164,11 +164,12 @@ configuration's order of precedence is:
 Some of the interesting keys that can be used in the JSON configuration files:
 ```js
 {
-    "app": "node bin/main.js", // Command to start the CDK app     (--app='node bin/main.js')
-    "context": {               // Context entries                  (--context=key=value)
+    "app": "node bin/main.js",        // Command to start the CDK app     (--app='node bin/main.js')
+    "context": {                      // Context entries                  (--context=key=value)
         "key": "value",
     },
-    "toolkitStackName": "foo", // Customize 'bootstrap' stack name (--toolkit-stack-name=foo)
-    "versionReporting": false, // Opt-out of version reporting     (--no-version-reporting)
+    "toolkitStackName": "foo",        // Customize 'bootstrap' stack name (--toolkit-stack-name=foo)
+    "toolkitBucketName": "fooBucket", // Customize 'bootstrap' bucket name(--toolkit-bucket-name=fooBucket)
+    "versionReporting": false,        // Opt-out of version reporting     (--no-version-reporting)
 }
 ```
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts b/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts
index 91f0ebffe3919..421ff6dc2831b 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/bin/cdk.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ async function parseCommandLineArguments() {
       .option('interactive', { type: 'boolean', alias: 'i', desc: 'interactively watch and show template updates' })
       .option('output', { type: 'string', alias: 'o', desc: 'write CloudFormation template for requested stacks to the given directory', requiresArg: true })
       .option('numbered', { type: 'boolean', alias: 'n', desc: 'prefix filenames with numbers to indicate deployment ordering' }))
-    .command('bootstrap [ENVIRONMENTS..]', 'Deploys the CDK toolkit stack into an AWS environment')
+    .command('bootstrap [ENVIRONMENTS..]', 'Deploys the CDK toolkit stack into an AWS environment', yargs => yargs
+      .option('toolkit-bucket-name', { type: 'string', alias: 'b', desc: 'The name of the CDK toolkit bucket', default: undefined }))
     .command('deploy [STACKS..]', 'Deploys the stack(s) named STACKS into your AWS account', yargs => yargs
       .option('build-exclude', { type: 'array', alias: 'E', nargs: 1, desc: 'do not rebuild asset with the given ID. Can be specified multiple times.', default: [] })
       .option('exclusively', { type: 'boolean', alias: 'e', desc: 'only deploy requested stacks, don\'t include dependencies' })
@@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ async function initCommandLine() {
         });
 
       case 'bootstrap':
-        return await cliBootstrap(args.ENVIRONMENTS, toolkitStackName, args.roleArn);
+        return await cliBootstrap(args.ENVIRONMENTS, toolkitStackName, args.roleArn, args.toolkitBucketName);
 
       case 'deploy':
         return await cli.deploy({
@@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ async function initCommandLine() {
    *             all stacks are implicitly selected.
    * @param toolkitStackName the name to be used for the CDK Toolkit stack.
    */
-  async function cliBootstrap(environmentGlobs: string[], toolkitStackName: string, roleArn: string | undefined): Promise<void> {
+  async function cliBootstrap(environmentGlobs: string[], toolkitStackName: string, roleArn: string | undefined, toolkitBucketName: string | undefined): Promise<void> {
     // Two modes of operation.
     //
     // If there is an '--app' argument, we select the environments from the app. Otherwise we just take the user
@@ -248,10 +249,13 @@ async function initCommandLine() {
 
     const environments = app ? await globEnvironmentsFromStacks(appStacks, environmentGlobs) : environmentsFromDescriptors(environmentGlobs);
 
+    // Bucket name can be passed using --toolkit-bucket-name or set in cdk.json
+    const bucketName = configuration.settings.get(['toolkitBucketName']) || toolkitBucketName;
+
     await Promise.all(environments.map(async (environment) => {
       success(' ⏳  Bootstrapping environment %s...', colors.blue(environment.name));
       try {
-        const result = await bootstrapEnvironment(environment, aws, toolkitStackName, roleArn);
+        const result = await bootstrapEnvironment(environment, aws, toolkitStackName, roleArn, bucketName);
         const message = result.noOp ? ' ✅  Environment %s bootstrapped (no changes).'
                       : ' ✅  Environment %s bootstrapped.';
         success(message, colors.blue(environment.name));
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/bootstrap-environment.ts b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/bootstrap-environment.ts
index 122899919e97a..d2c751b36b6dc 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/bootstrap-environment.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/bootstrap-environment.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { SDK } from './util/sdk';
 export const BUCKET_NAME_OUTPUT = 'BucketName';
 export const BUCKET_DOMAIN_NAME_OUTPUT = 'BucketDomainName';
 
-export async function bootstrapEnvironment(environment: Environment, aws: SDK, toolkitStackName: string, roleArn: string | undefined): Promise<DeployStackResult> {
+export async function bootstrapEnvironment(environment: Environment, aws: SDK, toolkitStackName: string, roleArn: string | undefined, toolkitBucketName: string | undefined): Promise<DeployStackResult> {
   const synthesizedStack: SynthesizedStack = {
     environment,
     metadata: {},
@@ -35,5 +35,8 @@ export async function bootstrapEnvironment(environment: Environment, aws: SDK, t
     },
     name: toolkitStackName,
   };
+  if (toolkitBucketName) {
+    synthesizedStack.template.Resources.StagingBucket.Properties.BucketName = toolkitBucketName;
+  }
   return await deployStack({ stack: synthesizedStack, sdk: aws, roleArn });
 }