diff --git a/openerp/tools/convert.py b/openerp/tools/convert.py
index a4a38cbfe18..451e9af4ee6 100644
--- a/openerp/tools/convert.py
+++ b/openerp/tools/convert.py
@@ -861,7 +861,8 @@ form: module.record_id""" % (xml_id,)
                 record_attrs[att] = el.attrib.pop(att)
 
         record.attrib.update(record_attrs)
-        record.append(etree.fromstring('<field name="name">%s</field>' % tpl_id))
+        name = el.get('name', tpl_id)
+        record.append(etree.fromstring('<field name="name">%s</field>' % name))
         record.append(etree.fromstring('<field name="type">qweb</field>'))
         record.append(etree.fromstring('<field name="arch" type="xml"/>'))
         record[-1].append(el)