diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c07bbb7444..c2ee7393e1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 
 
+- `opentelemetry-instrumentation-asyncpg` Fix high cardinality in the span name
+  ([#1324](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1324))
+
 ### Added
 
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc` add supports to filter requests to instrument. ([#1241](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1241))
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   ([#1208](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1208))
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiohttp-client` Fix producing additional spans with each newly created ClientSession
 - ([#1246](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1246))
-- Add _is_openetlemetry_instrumented check in _InstrumentedFastAPI class
+- Add _is_opentelemetry_instrumented check in _InstrumentedFastAPI class
   ([#1313](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1313))
 - Fix uninstrumentation of existing app instances in FastAPI
   ([#1258](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1258))
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-asyncpg/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/asyncpg/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-asyncpg/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/asyncpg/__init__.py
index b66168f4d0..e4074885f2 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-asyncpg/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/asyncpg/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-asyncpg/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/asyncpg/__init__.py
@@ -134,6 +134,11 @@ async def _do_execute(self, func, instance, args, kwargs):
         params = getattr(instance, "_params", {})
         name = args[0] if args[0] else params.get("database", "postgresql")
 
+        try:
+            name = name.split()[0]
+        except IndexError:
+            name = ""
+
         with self._tracer.start_as_current_span(
             name, kind=SpanKind.CLIENT
         ) as span:
diff --git a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/asyncpg/test_asyncpg_functional.py b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/asyncpg/test_asyncpg_functional.py
index 8111bce15e..8af57aa658 100644
--- a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/asyncpg/test_asyncpg_functional.py
+++ b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/asyncpg/test_asyncpg_functional.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def test_instrumented_execute_method_without_arguments(self, *_, **__):
         self.assertEqual(len(spans), 1)
         self.assertIs(StatusCode.UNSET, spans[0].status.status_code)
         self.check_span(spans[0])
-        self.assertEqual(spans[0].name, "SELECT 42;")
+        self.assertEqual(spans[0].name, "SELECT")
         self.assertEqual(
             spans[0].attributes[SpanAttributes.DB_STATEMENT], "SELECT 42;"
         )
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ def test_instrumented_fetch_method_without_arguments(self, *_, **__):
         spans = self.memory_exporter.get_finished_spans()
         self.assertEqual(len(spans), 1)
         self.check_span(spans[0])
+        self.assertEqual(spans[0].name, "SELECT")
         self.assertEqual(
             spans[0].attributes[SpanAttributes.DB_STATEMENT], "SELECT 42;"
         )
@@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ def test_instrumented_execute_method_with_arguments(self, *_, **__):
         self.assertIs(StatusCode.UNSET, spans[0].status.status_code)
 
         self.check_span(spans[0])
-        self.assertEqual(spans[0].name, "SELECT $1;")
+        self.assertEqual(spans[0].name, "SELECT")
         self.assertEqual(
             spans[0].attributes[SpanAttributes.DB_STATEMENT], "SELECT $1;"
         )
@@ -203,6 +204,7 @@ def test_instrumented_fetch_method_with_arguments(self, *_, **__):
         self.assertEqual(len(spans), 1)
 
         self.check_span(spans[0])
+        self.assertEqual(spans[0].name, "SELECT")
         self.assertEqual(
             spans[0].attributes[SpanAttributes.DB_STATEMENT], "SELECT $1;"
         )