diff --git a/openide.loaders/apichanges.xml b/openide.loaders/apichanges.xml
--- a/openide.loaders/apichanges.xml
+++ b/openide.loaders/apichanges.xml
@@ -109,6 +109,26 @@
 <!-- ACTUAL CHANGES BEGIN HERE: -->
 
   <changes>
+      <change id="org.netbeans.api.templates.TemplateRegistration.targetName">
+          <api name="loaders"/>
+          <summary>Introduce targetName for templates.</summary>
+          <version major="7" minor="56"/>
+          <date day="21" month="1" year="2014"/>
+          <author login="jhavlin"/>
+          <compatibility addition="yes" binary="compatible" source="compatible"
+                         semantic="compatible" deprecation="no" deletion="no"
+                         modification="no"/>
+          <description>
+              <p>
+                  By default, files creates from templates have name
+                  preinitialized to "new" + template name.
+                  TemplateRegistration.targetName can be used to customize how
+                  the file name will be preinitialized.
+              </p>
+          </description>
+          <class package="org.netbeans.api.templates" name="TemplateRegistration"/>
+          <issue number="239028"/>
+      </change>
       <change id="org.openide.loaders.DataFolder.SortMode.EXTENSIONS">
           <api name="loaders"/>
           <summary>Introduces SortMode for sorting by file extension.</summary>
diff --git a/openide.loaders/manifest.mf b/openide.loaders/manifest.mf
--- a/openide.loaders/manifest.mf
+++ b/openide.loaders/manifest.mf
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Manifest-Version: 1.0
 OpenIDE-Module: org.openide.loaders
-OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 7.55
+OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 7.56
 OpenIDE-Module-Localizing-Bundle: org/openide/loaders/Bundle.properties
 OpenIDE-Module-Provides: org.netbeans.modules.templates.v1_0
 OpenIDE-Module-Layer: org/netbeans/modules/openide/loaders/layer.xml
diff --git a/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/api/templates/TemplateRegistration.java b/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/api/templates/TemplateRegistration.java
--- a/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/api/templates/TemplateRegistration.java
+++ b/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/api/templates/TemplateRegistration.java
@@ -131,4 +131,11 @@
      * @since 7.46
      */
     boolean requireProject() default true;
+
+    /**
+     * Default (pre-filled) target name for the template, without extension.
+     *
+     * @since 7.56
+     */
+    String targetName() default "";
 }
diff --git a/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/modules/templates/TemplateProcessor.java b/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/modules/templates/TemplateProcessor.java
--- a/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/modules/templates/TemplateProcessor.java
+++ b/openide.loaders/src/org/netbeans/modules/templates/TemplateProcessor.java
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@
             f.stringvalue("templateCategory", sb.toString());
         }
         f.boolvalue("requireProject", t.requireProject());
+        if (!t.targetName().trim().isEmpty()) {
+            f.stringvalue("targetName", t.targetName());                //NOI18N
+        }
         f.write();
     }