diff --git a/django/db/backends/utils.py b/django/db/backends/utils.py
index 5da4e04478..7cb8228226 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/utils.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/utils.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import datetime
 import decimal
 import hashlib
 import logging
+import re
 from time import time
 
 from django.conf import settings
@@ -178,13 +179,19 @@ def rev_typecast_decimal(d):
 
 
 def truncate_name(name, length=None, hash_len=4):
-    """Shortens a string to a repeatable mangled version with the given length.
     """
-    if length is None or len(name) <= length:
+    Shorten a string to a repeatable mangled version with the given length.
+    If a quote stripped name contains a username, e.g. USERNAME"."TABLE,
+    truncate the table portion only.
+    """
+    match = re.match('([^"]+)"\."([^"]+)', name)
+    table_name = match.group(2) if match else name
+
+    if length is None or len(table_name) <= length:
         return name
 
-    hsh = hashlib.md5(force_bytes(name)).hexdigest()[:hash_len]
-    return '%s%s' % (name[:length - hash_len], hsh)
+    hsh = hashlib.md5(force_bytes(table_name)).hexdigest()[:hash_len]
+    return '%s%s%s' % (match.group(1) + '"."' if match else '', table_name[:length - hash_len], hsh)
 
 
 def format_number(value, max_digits, decimal_places):
diff --git a/tests/backends/test_utils.py b/tests/backends/test_utils.py
index 5076c1ae08..bf62c8c6df 100644
--- a/tests/backends/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/backends/test_utils.py
@@ -20,3 +20,7 @@ class TestLoadBackend(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(truncate_name('some_long_table', 10), 'some_la38a')
         self.assertEqual(truncate_name('some_long_table', 10, 3), 'some_loa38')
         self.assertEqual(truncate_name('some_long_table'), 'some_long_table')
+        # "user"."table" syntax
+        self.assertEqual(truncate_name('username"."some_table', 10), 'username"."some_table')
+        self.assertEqual(truncate_name('username"."some_long_table', 10), 'username"."some_la38a')
+        self.assertEqual(truncate_name('username"."some_long_table', 10, 3), 'username"."some_loa38')