diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dc85be1..855eb08 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ Available targets:
 | <a name="input_stage"></a> [stage](#input\_stage) | ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_stream_view_type"></a> [stream\_view\_type](#input\_stream\_view\_type) | When an item in the table is modified, what information is written to the stream | `string` | `""` | no |
 | <a name="input_table_class"></a> [table\_class](#input\_table\_class) | DynamoDB storage class of the table. Can be STANDARD or STANDARD\_INFREQUENT\_ACCESS | `string` | `"STANDARD"` | no |
+| <a name="input_table_name"></a> [table\_name](#input\_table\_name) | Table name. If provided, the bucket will be created with this name instead of generating the name from the context | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_tags"></a> [tags](#input\_tags) | Additional tags (e.g. `{'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}`).<br>Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module. | `map(string)` | `{}` | no |
 | <a name="input_tags_enabled"></a> [tags\_enabled](#input\_tags\_enabled) | Set to `false` to disable tagging. This can be helpful if you're managing tables on dynamodb-local with terraform as it doesn't support tagging. | `bool` | `true` | no |
 | <a name="input_tenant"></a> [tenant](#input\_tenant) | ID element \_(Rarely used, not included by default)\_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for | `string` | `null` | no |
diff --git a/docs/terraform.md b/docs/terraform.md
index d7b2db8..3bbe162 100644
--- a/docs/terraform.md
+++ b/docs/terraform.md
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 | <a name="input_stage"></a> [stage](#input\_stage) | ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_stream_view_type"></a> [stream\_view\_type](#input\_stream\_view\_type) | When an item in the table is modified, what information is written to the stream | `string` | `""` | no |
 | <a name="input_table_class"></a> [table\_class](#input\_table\_class) | DynamoDB storage class of the table. Can be STANDARD or STANDARD\_INFREQUENT\_ACCESS | `string` | `"STANDARD"` | no |
+| <a name="input_table_name"></a> [table\_name](#input\_table\_name) | Table name. If provided, the bucket will be created with this name instead of generating the name from the context | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_tags"></a> [tags](#input\_tags) | Additional tags (e.g. `{'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}`).<br>Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module. | `map(string)` | `{}` | no |
 | <a name="input_tags_enabled"></a> [tags\_enabled](#input\_tags\_enabled) | Set to `false` to disable tagging. This can be helpful if you're managing tables on dynamodb-local with terraform as it doesn't support tagging. | `bool` | `true` | no |
 | <a name="input_tenant"></a> [tenant](#input\_tenant) | ID element \_(Rarely used, not included by default)\_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for | `string` | `null` | no |
diff --git a/main.tf b/main.tf
index 7fcabe4..0fc0030 100644
--- a/main.tf
+++ b/main.tf
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 locals {
   enabled = module.this.enabled
 
+  table_name = var.table_name != null && var.table_name != "" ? var.table_name : module.this.id
+
   attributes = concat(
     [
       {
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ resource "null_resource" "local_secondary_index_names" {
 
 resource "aws_dynamodb_table" "default" {
   count                       = local.enabled ? 1 : 0
-  name                        = module.this.id
+  name                        = local.table_name
   billing_mode                = var.billing_mode
   read_capacity               = var.billing_mode == "PAY_PER_REQUEST" ? null : var.autoscale_min_read_capacity
   write_capacity              = var.billing_mode == "PAY_PER_REQUEST" ? null : var.autoscale_min_write_capacity
diff --git a/variables.tf b/variables.tf
index 5ee1527..f8a57eb 100644
--- a/variables.tf
+++ b/variables.tf
@@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ variable "autoscaler_tags" {
   description = "Additional resource tags for the autoscaler module"
 }
 
+variable "table_name" {
+  type        = string
+  default     = null
+  description = "Table name. If provided, the bucket will be created with this name instead of generating the name from the context"
+}
+
 variable "dynamodb_attributes" {
   type = list(object({
     name = string