diff --git a/Qt/QtMain.cpp b/Qt/QtMain.cpp
index 5122131e10..2f789effe9 100644
--- a/Qt/QtMain.cpp
+++ b/Qt/QtMain.cpp
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ static int mainInternal(QApplication &a) {
 }
 
 void MainUI::EmuThreadFunc() {
-	SetCurrentThreadName("Emu");
+	SetCurrentThreadName("EmuThread");
 
 	// There's no real requirement that NativeInit happen on this thread, though it can't hurt...
 	// We just call the update/render loop here. NativeInitGraphics should be here though.
diff --git a/SDL/SDLMain.cpp b/SDL/SDLMain.cpp
index 9ae8bd5ae3..33dc21f59c 100644
--- a/SDL/SDLMain.cpp
+++ b/SDL/SDLMain.cpp
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ static std::thread emuThread;
 static std::atomic<int> emuThreadState((int)EmuThreadState::DISABLED);
 
 static void EmuThreadFunc(GraphicsContext *graphicsContext) {
-	SetCurrentThreadName("Emu");
+	SetCurrentThreadName("EmuThread");
 
 	// There's no real requirement that NativeInit happen on this thread.
 	// We just call the update/render loop here.
diff --git a/Windows/EmuThread.cpp b/Windows/EmuThread.cpp
index 8f51150e5c..28908510cc 100644
--- a/Windows/EmuThread.cpp
+++ b/Windows/EmuThread.cpp
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ bool MainThread_Ready() {
 }
 
 static void EmuThreadFunc(GraphicsContext *graphicsContext) {
-	SetCurrentThreadName("Emu");
+	SetCurrentThreadName("EmuThread");
 
 	// There's no real requirement that NativeInit happen on this thread.
 	// We just call the update/render loop here.
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ bool CreateGraphicsBackend(std::string *error_message, GraphicsContext **ctx) {
 
 void MainThreadFunc() {
 	// We'll start up a separate thread we'll call Emu
-	SetCurrentThreadName(useEmuThread ? "Render" : "Emu");
+	SetCurrentThreadName(useEmuThread ? "RenderThread" : "EmuThread");
 
 	SetConsolePosition();
 
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ void MainThreadFunc() {
 	} else if (useEmuThread) {
 		// We must've failed over from OpenGL, flip the emu thread off.
 		useEmuThread = false;
-		SetCurrentThreadName("Emu");
+		SetCurrentThreadName("EmuThread");
 	}
 
 	if (g_Config.sFailedGPUBackends.find("ALL") != std::string::npos) {
diff --git a/libretro/libretro.cpp b/libretro/libretro.cpp
index eddb6d63a0..d17785ec8b 100644
--- a/libretro/libretro.cpp
+++ b/libretro/libretro.cpp
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ namespace Libretro
 
    static void EmuThreadFunc()
    {
-      SetCurrentThreadName("Emu");
+      SetCurrentThreadName("EmuThread");
 
       for (;;)
       {