diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 7f742fb4083..1dfa55b131f 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ Manuel Krebber
 Marc Mueller
 Marc Schlaich
 Marcelo Duarte Trevisani
+Marcin Augustynów
 Marcin Bachry
 Marc Bresson
 Marco Gorelli
diff --git a/changelog/12736.improvement.rst b/changelog/12736.improvement.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5fdb14e2ef5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/12736.improvement.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Added a new attribute `name` with the fixed value `"pytest tests"` to the root tag `testsuites` of the junit-xml generated by pytest.
+
+This attribute is part of many junit-xml specifications and is even part of the `junit-10.xsd` specification that pytest's implementation is based on.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/junitxml.py b/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
index ec9922ee7bd..dc35e3aac15 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
@@ -670,6 +670,7 @@ def pytest_sessionfinish(self) -> None:
             for node_reporter in self.node_reporters_ordered:
                 suite_node.append(node_reporter.to_xml())
             testsuites = ET.Element("testsuites")
+            testsuites.set("name", "pytest tests")
             testsuites.append(suite_node)
             logfile.write(ET.tostring(testsuites, encoding="unicode"))
 
diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index 4145f34ab14..504e4969039 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -1451,6 +1451,7 @@ def test_x():
     _, dom = run_and_parse(family=xunit_family)
     root = dom.get_unique_child
     assert root.tag == "testsuites"
+    root.assert_attr(name="pytest tests")
     suite_node = root.get_unique_child
     assert suite_node.tag == "testsuite"