diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/workloads/CoreWorkload.java b/core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/workloads/CoreWorkload.java
index d3fd84b30e..845d86eab0 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/workloads/CoreWorkload.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/workloads/CoreWorkload.java
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@
  * digits in the record number.
  * <LI><b>insertorder</b>: should records be inserted in order by key ("ordered"), or in hashed
  * order ("hashed") (default: hashed)
+ * <LI><b>fieldnameprefix</b>: what should be a prefix for field names, the shorter may decrease the
+ * required storage size (default: "field")
  * </ul>
  */
 public class CoreWorkload extends Workload {
@@ -329,6 +331,16 @@ public class CoreWorkload extends Workload {
   public static final String INSERTION_RETRY_INTERVAL = "core_workload_insertion_retry_interval";
   public static final String INSERTION_RETRY_INTERVAL_DEFAULT = "3";
 
+  /**
+   * Field name prefix.
+   */
+  public static final String FIELD_NAME_PREFIX = "fieldnameprefix";
+
+  /**
+   * Default value of the field name prefix.
+   */
+  public static final String FIELD_NAME_PREFIX_DEFAULT = "field";
+
   protected NumberGenerator keysequence;
   protected DiscreteGenerator operationchooser;
   protected NumberGenerator keychooser;
@@ -384,9 +396,10 @@ public void init(Properties p) throws WorkloadException {
 
     fieldcount =
         Long.parseLong(p.getProperty(FIELD_COUNT_PROPERTY, FIELD_COUNT_PROPERTY_DEFAULT));
+    final String fieldnameprefix = p.getProperty(FIELD_NAME_PREFIX, FIELD_NAME_PREFIX_DEFAULT);
     fieldnames = new ArrayList<>();
     for (int i = 0; i < fieldcount; i++) {
-      fieldnames.add("field" + i);
+      fieldnames.add(fieldnameprefix + i);
     }
     fieldlengthgenerator = CoreWorkload.getFieldLengthGenerator(p);
 
diff --git a/doc/coreproperties.html b/doc/coreproperties.html
index a03e967357..40a9d6a5da 100644
--- a/doc/coreproperties.html
+++ b/doc/coreproperties.html
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ <H2>Core workload package properties</h2>
 <LI><b>requestdistribution</b>: what distribution should be used to select the records to operate on - uniform, zipfian or latest (default: uniform) 
 <LI><b>maxscanlength</b>: for scans, what is the maximum number of records to scan (default: 1000) 
 <LI><b>scanlengthdistribution</b>: for scans, what distribution should be used to choose the number of records to scan, for each scan, between 1 and maxscanlength (default: uniform) 
-<LI><b>insertorder</b>: should records be inserted in order by key ("ordered"), or in hashed order ("hashed") (default: hashed) 
+<LI><b>insertorder</b>: should records be inserted in order by key ("ordered"), or in hashed order ("hashed") (default: hashed)
+<LI><b>fieldnameprefix</b>: string prefix for the field name (default: “field”)
 </UL>
 <HR>
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