diff --git a/py-polars/polars/expr/expr.py b/py-polars/polars/expr/expr.py
index 9a7a6c1a68e2..3d6215a63fe5 100644
--- a/py-polars/polars/expr/expr.py
+++ b/py-polars/polars/expr/expr.py
@@ -9671,8 +9671,8 @@ def value_counts(
                 as the computation is already parallelized per group.
         name
             Give the resulting count column a specific name;
-            if `normalize` is True defaults to "count",
-            otherwise defaults to "proportion".
+            if `normalize` is True defaults to "proportion",
+            otherwise defaults to "count".
         normalize
             If true gives relative frequencies of the unique values
 
diff --git a/py-polars/polars/series/series.py b/py-polars/polars/series/series.py
index f298b793c9ad..0ac265a64ef3 100644
--- a/py-polars/polars/series/series.py
+++ b/py-polars/polars/series/series.py
@@ -2429,8 +2429,8 @@ def value_counts(
                 as the computation is already parallelized per group.
         name
             Give the resulting count column a specific name;
-            if `normalize` is True defaults to "count",
-            otherwise defaults to "proportion".
+            if `normalize` is True defaults to "proportion",
+            otherwise defaults to "count".
         normalize
             If true gives relative frequencies of the unique values