diff --git a/library/src/scala/NamedTuple.scala b/library/src/scala/NamedTuple.scala
index 1e4d3c084a3c..c63ad29c56e9 100644
--- a/library/src/scala/NamedTuple.scala
+++ b/library/src/scala/NamedTuple.scala
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ object NamedTuple:
   /** The empty named tuple */
   val Empty: Empty = EmptyTuple
 
+  /** The ordering instance for named tuples */
+  given namedTupleOrdering: [N <: Tuple, V <: Tuple] => (ord: Ordering[V]) => Ordering[NamedTuple[N, V]]:
+    def compare(x: NamedTuple[N, V], y: NamedTuple[N, V]): Int =
+      ord.compare(x.toTuple, y.toTuple)
 end NamedTuple
 
 /** Separate from NamedTuple object so that we can match on the opaque type NamedTuple. */
diff --git a/project/MiMaFilters.scala b/project/MiMaFilters.scala
index c57136b262dd..002f53b24761 100644
--- a/project/MiMaFilters.scala
+++ b/project/MiMaFilters.scala
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ object MiMaFilters {
 
         ProblemFilters.exclude[DirectMissingMethodProblem]("scala.Conversion.underlying"),
         ProblemFilters.exclude[MissingClassProblem]("scala.Conversion$"),
+
+        ProblemFilters.exclude[DirectMissingMethodProblem]("scala.NamedTuple.namedTupleOrdering"),
+        ProblemFilters.exclude[MissingClassProblem]("scala.NamedTuple$namedTupleOrdering"),
       ),
 
       // Additions since last LTS
diff --git a/tests/run/named-tuple-ordering.check b/tests/run/named-tuple-ordering.check
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ea1c136aeec1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run/named-tuple-ordering.check
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+List((Alice,29), (Alice,30), (Bob,25), (Charlie,35))
diff --git a/tests/run/named-tuple-ordering.scala b/tests/run/named-tuple-ordering.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5d1c4583c915
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run/named-tuple-ordering.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+type Person = (name: String, age: Int)
+
+val so = summon[Ordering[Person]]
+
+val people: List[Person] = List(
+  (name = "Charlie", age = 35),
+  (name = "Alice", age = 30),
+  (name = "Alice", age = 29),
+  (name = "Bob", age = 25),
+)
+val sortedPeople = people.sorted
+
+@main def Test = println(s"$sortedPeople")