diff --git a/drivers/core/ofnode.c b/drivers/core/ofnode.c
index f9c9ca14a66..154c7b26670 100644
--- a/drivers/core/ofnode.c
+++ b/drivers/core/ofnode.c
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ const char *ofnode_get_name(ofnode node)
 	}
 
 	if (ofnode_is_np(node))
-		return strrchr(node.np->full_name, '/') + 1;
+		return node.np->name;
 
 	return fdt_get_name(gd->fdt_blob, ofnode_to_offset(node), NULL);
 }
diff --git a/include/dm/ofnode.h b/include/dm/ofnode.h
index 9dcc1fed5ba..1e23a40c995 100644
--- a/include/dm/ofnode.h
+++ b/include/dm/ofnode.h
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ ofnode ofnode_get_parent(ofnode node);
  * ofnode_get_name() - get the name of a node
  *
  * @node: valid node to look up
- * Return: name of node
+ * Return: name of node (for the root node this is "")
  */
 const char *ofnode_get_name(ofnode node);
 
diff --git a/lib/of_live.c b/lib/of_live.c
index 30cae9ab881..1b5964d09a9 100644
--- a/lib/of_live.c
+++ b/lib/of_live.c
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ static void *unflatten_dt_node(const void *blob, void *mem, int *poffset,
 		char *fn;
 
 		fn = (char *)np + sizeof(*np);
+		if (new_format) {
+			np->name = pathp;
+			has_name = 1;
+		}
 		np->full_name = fn;
 		if (new_format) {
 			/* rebuild full path for new format */
@@ -202,7 +206,8 @@ static void *unflatten_dt_node(const void *blob, void *mem, int *poffset,
 	}
 	if (!dryrun) {
 		*prev_pp = NULL;
-		np->name = of_get_property(np, "name", NULL);
+		if (!has_name)
+			np->name = of_get_property(np, "name", NULL);
 		np->type = of_get_property(np, "device_type", NULL);
 
 		if (!np->name)