diff --git a/change/@fluentui-font-icons-mdl2-6bcb568e-9f07-40c7-9947-46b3d24f3603.json b/change/@fluentui-font-icons-mdl2-6bcb568e-9f07-40c7-9947-46b3d24f3603.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cbcbb3ae4f6f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/change/@fluentui-font-icons-mdl2-6bcb568e-9f07-40c7-9947-46b3d24f3603.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "type": "minor",
+  "comment": {
+    "title": "",
+    "value": ""
+  },
+  "packageName": "@fluentui/font-icons-mdl2",
+  "email": "gcox@microsoft.com",
+  "dependentChangeType": "patch"
+}
diff --git a/packages/font-icons-mdl2/etc/font-icons-mdl2.api.md b/packages/font-icons-mdl2/etc/font-icons-mdl2.api.md
index 8c3dd61be1398..b40c4860a8daa 100644
--- a/packages/font-icons-mdl2/etc/font-icons-mdl2.api.md
+++ b/packages/font-icons-mdl2/etc/font-icons-mdl2.api.md
@@ -3613,8 +3613,10 @@ export const enum IconNames {
 }
 
 // @public (undocumented)
-export function initializeIcons(baseUrl?: string, options?: IIconOptions): void;
+export type IconNamesInput = keyof typeof IconNames;
 
+// @public (undocumented)
+export function initializeIcons(baseUrl?: string, options?: IIconOptions): void;
 
 // (No @packageDocumentation comment for this package)
 
diff --git a/packages/font-icons-mdl2/src/index.ts b/packages/font-icons-mdl2/src/index.ts
index ea70102a5768f..58d83f1f78d11 100644
--- a/packages/font-icons-mdl2/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/font-icons-mdl2/src/index.ts
@@ -88,6 +88,6 @@ export function initializeIcons(
 }
 
 // eslint-disable-next-line deprecation/deprecation
-export { IconNames } from './IconNames';
+export { IconNames, IconNamesInput } from './IconNames';
 
 import './version';