diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 45163e7889..cc71d38d2c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   ([#1424](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1424))
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi` Fix the check for the connection already being instrumented in instrument_connection().
   ([#1424](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1424))
+- Remove db.name attribute from Redis instrumentation
+  ([#1427](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1427))
 
 ## Version 1.14.0/0.35b0 (2022-11-03)
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/util.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/util.py
index c5398b42f7..fdc5cb5fd6 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/util.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/redis/util.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ def _extract_conn_attributes(conn_kwargs):
         SpanAttributes.DB_SYSTEM: DbSystemValues.REDIS.value,
     }
     db = conn_kwargs.get("db", 0)
-    attributes[SpanAttributes.DB_NAME] = db
     attributes[SpanAttributes.DB_REDIS_DATABASE_INDEX] = db
     try:
         attributes[SpanAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME] = conn_kwargs.get(
diff --git a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/redis/test_redis_functional.py b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/redis/test_redis_functional.py
index 21d7e36b00..db82ec489c 100644
--- a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/redis/test_redis_functional.py
+++ b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/redis/test_redis_functional.py
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ def tearDown(self):
     def _check_span(self, span, name):
         self.assertEqual(span.name, name)
         self.assertIs(span.status.status_code, trace.StatusCode.UNSET)
-        self.assertEqual(span.attributes.get(SpanAttributes.DB_NAME), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            span.attributes.get(SpanAttributes.DB_REDIS_DATABASE_INDEX), 0
+        )
         self.assertEqual(
             span.attributes[SpanAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME], "localhost"
         )
@@ -209,7 +211,9 @@ def tearDown(self):
     def _check_span(self, span, name):
         self.assertEqual(span.name, name)
         self.assertIs(span.status.status_code, trace.StatusCode.UNSET)
-        self.assertEqual(span.attributes.get(SpanAttributes.DB_NAME), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            span.attributes.get(SpanAttributes.DB_REDIS_DATABASE_INDEX), 0
+        )
         self.assertEqual(
             span.attributes[SpanAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME], "localhost"
         )