diff --git a/src/normalize/pathoverlay.ts b/src/normalize/pathoverlay.ts
index 33e988f7a0..e5331c9422 100644
--- a/src/normalize/pathoverlay.ts
+++ b/src/normalize/pathoverlay.ts
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ export class PathOverlayNormalizer implements NonFacetUnitNormalizer<UnitSpecWit
 
   public run(spec: UnitSpecWithPathOverlay, normParams: NormalizerParams, normalize: NormalizeLayerOrUnit) {
     const {config} = normParams;
-    const {params, projection, mark, encoding: e, ...outerSpec} = spec;
+    const {params, projection, mark, name, encoding: e, ...outerSpec} = spec;
 
     // Need to call normalizeEncoding because we need the inferred types to correctly determine stack
     const encoding = normalizeEncoding(e, config);
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ export class PathOverlayNormalizer implements NonFacetUnitNormalizer<UnitSpecWit
 
     const layer: NormalizedUnitSpec[] = [
       {
+        name,
         ...(params ? {params} : {}),
         mark: dropLineAndPoint({
           // TODO: extract this 0.7 to be shared with default opacity for point/tick/...