diff --git oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/FieldNames.java oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/FieldNames.java
index c2cbd7b..6907101 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/FieldNames.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/FieldNames.java
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ public final class FieldNames {
     public static final String NOT_NULL_PROPS = ":notNullProps";
 
     /**
+     * Name of the field that contains the node name
+     */
+    public static final String NODE_NAME = ":nodeName";
+
+    /**
      * Used to select only the PATH field from the lucene documents
      */
     public static final Set<String> PATH_SELECTOR = new HashSet<String>(
diff --git oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexDefinition.java oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexDefinition.java
index 7d191c4..422c4f3 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexDefinition.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexDefinition.java
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ class IndexDefinition implements Aggregate.AggregateMapper{
         private final List<PropertyDefinition> nullCheckEnabledProperties;
         private final List<PropertyDefinition> notNullCheckEnabledProperties;
         private final boolean indexesAllNodesOfMatchingType;
+        private final boolean nodeNameIndexed;
 
         final float boost;
         final boolean inherited;
@@ -579,6 +580,7 @@ class IndexDefinition implements Aggregate.AggregateMapper{
         final Aggregate propAggregate;
 
 
+
         IndexingRule(String nodeTypeName, NodeState config) {
             this.nodeTypeName = nodeTypeName;
             this.baseNodeType = nodeTypeName;
@@ -600,6 +602,7 @@ class IndexDefinition implements Aggregate.AggregateMapper{
             this.fulltextEnabled = aggregate.hasNodeAggregates() || hasAnyFullTextEnabledProperty();
             this.propertyIndexEnabled = hasAnyPropertyIndexConfigured();
             this.indexesAllNodesOfMatchingType = allMatchingNodeByTypeIndexed();
+            this.nodeNameIndexed = getOptionalValue(config, LuceneIndexConstants.INDEX_NODE_NAME, false);
             validateRuleDefinition();
         }
 
@@ -625,6 +628,7 @@ class IndexDefinition implements Aggregate.AggregateMapper{
             this.aggregate = combine(propAggregate, nodeTypeName);
             this.fulltextEnabled = aggregate.hasNodeAggregates() || original.fulltextEnabled;
             this.indexesAllNodesOfMatchingType = allMatchingNodeByTypeIndexed();
+            this.nodeNameIndexed = original.nodeNameIndexed;
         }
 
         /**
@@ -698,6 +702,10 @@ class IndexDefinition implements Aggregate.AggregateMapper{
 
         }
 
+        public boolean isNodeNameIndexed() {
+            return nodeNameIndexed;
+        }
+
         public boolean isFulltextEnabled() {
             return fulltextEnabled;
         }
diff --git oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexPlanner.java oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexPlanner.java
index ed26d81..31aec99 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexPlanner.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/IndexPlanner.java
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.query.fulltext.FullTextExpression;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.query.fulltext.FullTextTerm;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.query.fulltext.FullTextVisitor;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.Filter;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.QueryConstant;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -153,6 +154,7 @@ class IndexPlanner {
         boolean evalNodeTypeRestrictions = canEvalNodeTypeRestrictions(indexingRule);
         boolean evalPathRestrictions = canEvalPathRestrictions(indexingRule);
         boolean canEvalAlFullText = canEvalAllFullText(indexingRule, ft);
+        boolean canEvalNodeNameRestriction = canEvalNodeNameRestriction(indexingRule);
 
         if (ft != null && !canEvalAlFullText){
             return null;
@@ -162,7 +164,8 @@ class IndexPlanner {
 
         List<OrderEntry> sortOrder = createSortOrder(indexingRule);
         boolean canSort = canSortByProperty(sortOrder);
-        if (!indexedProps.isEmpty() || canSort || ft != null || evalPathRestrictions || evalNodeTypeRestrictions) {
+        if (!indexedProps.isEmpty() || canSort || ft != null
+                || evalPathRestrictions || evalNodeTypeRestrictions || canEvalNodeNameRestriction) {
             //TODO Need a way to have better cost estimate to indicate that
             //this index can evaluate more propertyRestrictions natively (if more props are indexed)
             //For now we reduce cost per entry
@@ -197,6 +200,14 @@ class IndexPlanner {
         return null;
     }
 
+    private boolean canEvalNodeNameRestriction(IndexingRule indexingRule) {
+        PropertyRestriction pr = filter.getPropertyRestriction(QueryConstant.RESTRICTION_LOCAL_NAME);
+        if (pr == null){
+            return false;
+        }
+        return indexingRule.isNodeNameIndexed();
+    }
+
     private static boolean canSortByProperty(List<OrderEntry> sortOrder) {
         if (sortOrder.isEmpty()) {
             return false;
diff --git oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexConstants.java oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexConstants.java
index ab077b8..a25866b 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexConstants.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexConstants.java
@@ -253,4 +253,10 @@ public interface LuceneIndexConstants {
      * 'IS NOT NULL' constraint
      */
     String PROP_NOT_NULL_CHECK_ENABLED = "notNullCheckEnabled";
+
+    /**
+     * IndexRule level config to indicate that Node name should also be index
+     * to support fn:name() queries
+     */
+    String INDEX_NODE_NAME = "indexNodeName";
 }
diff --git oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexEditor.java oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexEditor.java
index 721b6f8..039847d 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexEditor.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexEditor.java
@@ -312,6 +312,12 @@ public class LuceneIndexEditor implements IndexEditor, Aggregate.AggregateRoot {
             return null;
         }
 
+        String name = getName(path);
+        if (indexingRule.isNodeNameIndexed()){
+            addNodeNameField(fields, name);
+            dirty = true;
+        }
+
         //For property index no use making an empty document if
         //none of the properties are indexed
         if(!indexingRule.isFulltextEnabled() && !dirty){
@@ -320,9 +326,8 @@ public class LuceneIndexEditor implements IndexEditor, Aggregate.AggregateRoot {
 
         Document document = new Document();
         document.add(newPathField(path));
-        String name = getName(path);
 
-        //TODO Possibly index nodeName without tokenization for node name based queries
+
         if (indexingRule.isFulltextEnabled()) {
             document.add(newFulltextField(name));
         }
@@ -800,4 +805,21 @@ public class LuceneIndexEditor implements IndexEditor, Aggregate.AggregateRoot {
         return handler.toString();
     }
 
+
+    /**
+     * Extracts the local name of the current node ignoring any namespace prefix
+     *
+     * @param name node name
+     */
+    private static void addNodeNameField(List<Field> fields, String name) {
+        //TODO Need to check if it covers all cases
+        int colon = name.indexOf(':');
+        String value = colon < 0 ? name : name.substring(colon + 1);
+
+        //For now just add a single term. Later we can look into using different analyzer
+        //to analyze the node name and add multiple terms. Like add multiple terms for a
+        //cameCase file name to allow faster like search
+        fields.add(new StringField(FieldNames.NODE_NAME, value, Field.Store.NO));
+    }
+
 }
diff --git oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndex.java oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndex.java
index 60e24d1..f8b59c9 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndex.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndex.java
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.Filter;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.Filter.PropertyRestriction;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.IndexRow;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.PropertyValues;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.QueryConstant;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.QueryIndex;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.QueryIndex.AdvanceFulltextQueryIndex;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state.NodeState;
@@ -650,6 +651,14 @@ public class LucenePropertyIndex implements AdvancedQueryIndex, QueryIndex, Nati
                 }
             }
 
+            if (QueryConstant.RESTRICTION_LOCAL_NAME.equals(name)){
+                Query q = createNodeNameQuery(pr);
+                if (q != null) {
+                    qs.add(q);
+                }
+                continue;
+            }
+
             PropertyDefinition pd = planResult.getPropDefn(pr);
             if (pd == null) {
                 continue;
@@ -854,6 +863,21 @@ public class LucenePropertyIndex implements AdvancedQueryIndex, QueryIndex, Nati
         throw new IllegalStateException("PropertyRestriction not handled " + pr + " for index " + defn );
     }
 
+    private static Query createNodeNameQuery(PropertyRestriction pr) {
+        String first = pr.first != null ? pr.first.getValue(STRING) : null;
+        if (pr.first != null && pr.first.equals(pr.last) && pr.firstIncluding
+                && pr.lastIncluding) {
+            // [property]=[value]
+            return new TermQuery(new Term(FieldNames.NODE_NAME, first));
+        }
+
+        if (pr.isLike) {
+            return createLikeQuery(FieldNames.NODE_NAME, first);
+        }
+
+        throw new IllegalStateException("For nodeName queries only EQUALS and LIKE are supported "+pr);
+    }
+
     private static void addReferenceConstraint(String uuid, List<Query> qs,
             IndexReader reader) {
         if (reader == null) {
diff --git oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexTest.java oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexTest.java
index 0d028f7..3df526b 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexTest.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LuceneIndexTest.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import static junit.framework.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static junit.framework.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.apache.jackrabbit.JcrConstants.JCR_SYSTEM;
 import static org.apache.jackrabbit.JcrConstants.NT_BASE;
+import static org.apache.jackrabbit.JcrConstants.NT_FILE;
 import static org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.index.IndexConstants.INDEX_DEFINITIONS_NAME;
 import static org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.index.IndexConstants.REINDEX_PROPERTY_NAME;
 import static org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.index.lucene.LuceneIndexConstants.ANALYZERS;
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ import static org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.QueryIndex.IndexPlan;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.JcrConstants;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.api.Type;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.index.IndexConstants;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.index.IndexUpdateProvider;
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.Cursor;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.Filter;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.IndexRow;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.PropertyValues;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.query.QueryConstant;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state.NodeBuilder;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state.NodeState;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state.NodeStore;
@@ -373,6 +376,38 @@ public class LuceneIndexTest {
         assertFilter(filter, queryIndex, indexed, ImmutableList.of("/a/b", "/a/b/c"));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void nodeNameIndex() throws Exception{
+        NodeBuilder index = newLucenePropertyIndexDefinition(builder.child(INDEX_DEFINITIONS_NAME),
+                "lucene", ImmutableSet.of("foo"), null);
+        NodeBuilder rules = index.child(INDEX_RULES);
+        NodeBuilder ruleNode = rules.child(NT_FILE);
+        ruleNode.setProperty(LuceneIndexConstants.INDEX_NODE_NAME, true);
+
+        NodeState before = builder.getNodeState();
+        createNodeWithType(builder, "foo", NT_FILE);
+        createNodeWithType(builder, "camelCase", NT_FILE);
+        NodeState after = builder.getNodeState();
+
+        NodeState indexed = HOOK.processCommit(before, after,CommitInfo.EMPTY);
+
+        IndexTracker tracker = new IndexTracker();
+        tracker.update(indexed);
+        AdvancedQueryIndex queryIndex = new LucenePropertyIndex(tracker);
+
+        FilterImpl filter = createFilter(NT_FILE);
+        filter.restrictProperty(QueryConstant.RESTRICTION_LOCAL_NAME, Operator.EQUAL, PropertyValues.newString("foo"));
+        assertFilter(filter, queryIndex, indexed, ImmutableList.of("/foo"));
+
+        filter = createFilter(NT_FILE);
+        filter.restrictProperty(QueryConstant.RESTRICTION_LOCAL_NAME, Operator.LIKE, PropertyValues.newString("camelCase"));
+        assertFilter(filter, queryIndex, indexed, ImmutableList.of("/camelCase"));
+
+        filter = createFilter(NT_FILE);
+        filter.restrictProperty(QueryConstant.RESTRICTION_LOCAL_NAME, Operator.LIKE, PropertyValues.newString("camel%"));
+        assertFilter(filter, queryIndex, indexed, ImmutableList.of("/camelCase"));
+    }
+
     private FilterImpl createTestFilter(){
         FilterImpl filter = createFilter(NT_BASE);
         filter.restrictProperty("foo", Operator.EQUAL, PropertyValues.newString("bar"));
diff --git oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndexTest.java oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndexTest.java
index 57e2297..1ec4351 100644
--- oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndexTest.java
+++ oak-lucene/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/lucene/LucenePropertyIndexTest.java
@@ -305,6 +305,33 @@ public class LucenePropertyIndexTest extends AbstractQueryTest {
     }
 
     @Test
+    public void nodeName() throws Exception{
+        Tree idx = createIndex("test1", of("propa", "propb"));
+        Tree rules = idx.addChild(LuceneIndexConstants.INDEX_RULES);
+        rules.setOrderableChildren(true);
+        Tree rule = rules.addChild("nt:base");
+        rule.setProperty(LuceneIndexConstants.INDEX_NODE_NAME, true);
+        root.commit();
+
+        Tree test = root.getTree("/");
+        test.addChild("foo");
+        test.addChild("camelCase");
+        test.addChild("test").addChild("bar");
+        root.commit();
+
+        String propabQuery = "select [jcr:path] from [nt:base] where LOCALNAME() = 'foo'";
+        assertThat(explain(propabQuery), containsString("lucene:test1(/oak:index/test1) :nodeName:foo"));
+        assertQuery(propabQuery, asList("/foo"));
+        assertQuery("select [jcr:path] from [nt:base] where LOCALNAME() = 'bar'", asList("/test/bar"));
+        assertQuery("select [jcr:path] from [nt:base] where LOCALNAME() LIKE 'foo'", asList("/foo"));
+        assertQuery("select [jcr:path] from [nt:base] where LOCALNAME() LIKE 'camel%'", asList("/camelCase"));
+
+        assertQuery("select [jcr:path] from [nt:base] where NAME() = 'bar'", asList("/test/bar"));
+        assertQuery("select [jcr:path] from [nt:base] where NAME() LIKE 'foo'", asList("/foo"));
+        assertQuery("select [jcr:path] from [nt:base] where NAME() LIKE 'camel%'", asList("/camelCase"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
     public void emptyIndex() throws Exception{
         Tree idx = createIndex("test1", of("propa", "propb"));
         idx.addChild(PROP_NODE).addChild("propa");
