diff --git a/cli/generator.go b/cli/generator.go
index 5bf5a908..069aa177 100644
--- a/cli/generator.go
+++ b/cli/generator.go
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ func newGenSource(ctx *cli.Context, sizeField string) func() generator.Source {
 	}
 	opts := []generator.Option{
 		generator.WithCustomPrefix(ctx.String("prefix")),
+		generator.WithCustomName(ctx.String("obj.name")),
 		generator.WithPrefixSize(prefixSize),
 	}
 	tokens := strings.Split(ctx.String(sizeField), ",")
diff --git a/cli/get.go b/cli/get.go
index b73cfb14..25b6ee4b 100644
--- a/cli/get.go
+++ b/cli/get.go
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ var getFlags = []cli.Flag{
 		Value: "10MiB",
 		Usage: "Size of each generated object. Can be a number or 10KiB/MiB/GiB. All sizes are base 2 binary.",
 	},
+	cli.StringFlag{
+		Name:  "obj.name",
+		Usage: "Specify an object name",
+	},
 	cli.BoolFlag{
 		Name:  "range",
 		Usage: "Do ranged get operations. Will request with random offset and length.",
@@ -51,7 +55,6 @@ var getFlags = []cli.Flag{
 		Name:  "range-size",
 		Usage: "Use a fixed range size while doing random range offsets with --range",
 	},
-
 	cli.IntFlag{
 		Name:  "versions",
 		Value: 1,
diff --git a/pkg/generator/options.go b/pkg/generator/options.go
index 749c9822..423d430c 100644
--- a/pkg/generator/options.go
+++ b/pkg/generator/options.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package generator
 
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"math/rand"
 )
 
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ import (
 type Options struct {
 	src          func(o Options) (Source, error)
 	customPrefix string
+	customName   string
 	random       RandomOpts
 	csv          CsvOpts
 	minSize      int64
@@ -48,6 +50,16 @@ func (o Options) getSize(rng *rand.Rand) int64 {
 	return GetExpRandSize(rng, o.minSize, o.totalSize)
 }
 
+// getSize will return a size for an object.
+func (o Options) getName(counter uint64, rng *rand.Rand) string {
+	if o.customName != "" {
+		return o.customName
+	}
+	var nBuf [16]byte
+	randASCIIBytes(nBuf[:], rng)
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%d.%s.rnd", counter, string(nBuf[:]))
+}
+
 func defaultOptions() Options {
 	o := Options{
 		src:          newRandom,
@@ -115,6 +127,14 @@ func WithCustomPrefix(prefix string) Option {
 	}
 }
 
+// WithCustomName adds custom object name
+func WithCustomName(name string) Option {
+	return func(o *Options) error {
+		o.customName = name
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
 // WithPrefixSize sets prefix size.
 func WithPrefixSize(n int) Option {
 	return func(o *Options) error {
diff --git a/pkg/generator/random.go b/pkg/generator/random.go
index 5a20dc40..e9b3a3f9 100644
--- a/pkg/generator/random.go
+++ b/pkg/generator/random.go
@@ -121,10 +121,8 @@ func newRandom(o Options) (Source, error) {
 
 func (r *randomSrc) Object() *Object {
 	atomic.AddUint64(&r.counter, 1)
-	var nBuf [16]byte
-	randASCIIBytes(nBuf[:], r.rng)
 	r.obj.Size = r.o.getSize(r.rng)
-	r.obj.setName(fmt.Sprintf("%d.%s.rnd", atomic.LoadUint64(&r.counter), string(nBuf[:])))
+	r.obj.setName(r.o.getName(atomic.LoadUint64(&r.counter), r.rng))
 
 	// Reset scrambler
 	r.obj.Reader = r.buf.Reset(r.obj.Size)