diff --git a/docs/usage/create.rst.inc b/docs/usage/create.rst.inc
index 5c03c6365..6b50d9af2 100644
--- a/docs/usage/create.rst.inc
+++ b/docs/usage/create.rst.inc
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ The archive name needs to be unique. It must not end in '.checkpoint' or
 checkpoints and treated in special ways.
 
 In the archive name, you may use the following format tags:
-{now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}, {pid}
+{now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}, {pid}, {uuid}
 
 To speed up pulling backups over sshfs and similar network file systems which do
 not provide correct inode information the --ignore-inode flag can be used. This
diff --git a/src/borg/archiver.py b/src/borg/archiver.py
index 89ebc76bf..9450ef6a1 100644
--- a/src/borg/archiver.py
+++ b/src/borg/archiver.py
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ class Archiver:
         checkpoints and treated in special ways.
 
         In the archive name, you may use the following format tags:
-        {now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}, {pid}
+        {now}, {utcnow}, {fqdn}, {hostname}, {user}, {pid}, {uuid}
 
         To speed up pulling backups over sshfs and similar network file systems which do
         not provide correct inode information the --ignore-inode flag can be used. This
diff --git a/src/borg/helpers.py b/src/borg/helpers.py
index 0008fc5bc..54183ef8e 100644
--- a/src/borg/helpers.py
+++ b/src/borg/helpers.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import stat
 import textwrap
 import time
 import unicodedata
+import uuid
 from binascii import hexlify
 from collections import namedtuple, deque
 from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
@@ -740,7 +741,8 @@ class Location:
             'hostname': socket.gethostname(),
             'now': current_time.now(),
             'utcnow': current_time.utcnow(),
-            'user': uid2user(os.getuid(), os.getuid())
+            'user': uid2user(os.getuid(), os.getuid()),
+            'uuid': str(uuid.uuid4())
             }
         return format_line(text, data)