diff --git a/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/acronyms+names.wordlist.txt b/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/acronyms+names.wordlist.txt
index a0e67dcb43b..5a6e69f0f8d 100644
--- a/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/acronyms+names.wordlist.txt
+++ b/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/acronyms+names.wordlist.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ MinGW
 Minix
 MS-DOS
 MSDOS
+msys
 NetBSD
 Novell
 Nushell
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0c93fd5f5d1..f302f31bcb0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4374,6 +4374,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "fluent",
  "rustix",
  "uucore",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml
index f54137ab30a..321ac2f082b 100644
--- a/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ fluent = { workspace = true }
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 rustix = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "termios"] }
 
+[target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
+windows-sys = { workspace = true, features = [
+  "Win32_Storage_FileSystem",
+  "Win32_Foundation",
+] }
+
 [[bin]]
 name = "tty"
 path = "src/main.rs"
diff --git a/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs b/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs
index 78b8d55eea4..504e34a88b2 100644
--- a/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs
+++ b/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs
@@ -58,11 +58,20 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
         writeln!(stdout, "{}", translate!("tty-not-a-tty"))
     };
     #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
-    let write_result = if std::io::stdin().is_terminal() {
-        writeln!(stdout, r"\\.\CON")
-    } else {
-        set_exit_code(1);
-        writeln!(stdout, "{}", translate!("tty-not-a-tty"))
+    let write_result = {
+        use std::os::windows::io::AsHandle;
+        let stdin = std::io::stdin();
+        let stdin_handle = stdin.as_handle();
+        if stdin_handle.is_terminal() {
+            writeln!(
+                stdout,
+                "{}",
+                file_name(stdin_handle).as_deref().unwrap_or(r"\\.\CON")
+            )
+        } else {
+            set_exit_code(1);
+            writeln!(stdout, "{}", translate!("tty-not-a-tty"))
+        }
     };
 
     if write_result.is_err() || stdout.flush().is_err() {
@@ -74,6 +83,44 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+fn file_name(handle: std::os::windows::io::BorrowedHandle) -> Option<String> {
+    // This code is adapted from rust's standard library
+    // https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/0424cc16731e6141a18077f8ccde77ba148d9649/library/std/src/sys/io/is_terminal/windows.rs#L25
+    use std::mem::MaybeUninit;
+    use std::os::windows::io::AsRawHandle;
+    use windows_sys::Win32::Foundation::MAX_PATH;
+    use windows_sys::Win32::Storage::FileSystem::{FileNameInfo, GetFileInformationByHandleEx};
+    // Manually define FILE_NAME_INFO so we can more easily construct a stack buffer.
+    #[repr(C)]
+    #[allow(non_snake_case)]
+    struct FILE_NAME_INFO {
+        FileNameLength: u32,
+        FileName: [MaybeUninit<u16>; MAX_PATH as usize],
+    }
+    let mut name = FILE_NAME_INFO {
+        FileNameLength: 0,
+        FileName: [MaybeUninit::uninit(); MAX_PATH as usize],
+    };
+    unsafe {
+        let result = GetFileInformationByHandleEx(
+            handle.as_raw_handle(),
+            FileNameInfo,
+            (&raw mut name).cast(),
+            size_of::<FILE_NAME_INFO>() as u32,
+        );
+        if result == 0 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            let name = name.FileName.get(..name.FileNameLength as usize / 2)?;
+            // SAFETY: all elements up to FileNameLength have been initialized
+            let name: &[u16] = &*(std::ptr::from_ref::<[MaybeUninit<u16>]>(name) as *const [u16]);
+            // This should never fail for a valid msys terminal because they use ASCII names.
+            String::from_utf16(name).ok()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 pub fn uu_app() -> Command {
     let cmd = Command::new("tty")
         .version(uucore::crate_version!())