diff --git a/docs/sanic/request_data.md b/docs/sanic/request_data.md
index e778faf6..5423aa13 100644
--- a/docs/sanic/request_data.md
+++ b/docs/sanic/request_data.md
@@ -120,3 +120,19 @@ args.get('titles') # => 'Post 1'
 
 args.getlist('titles') # => ['Post 1', 'Post 2']
 ```
+
+## Accessing the handler name with the request.endpoint attribute
+
+The `request.endpoint` attribute holds the handler's name. For instance, the below
+route will return "hello".
+
+```python
+from sanic.response import text
+from sanic import Sanic
+
+app = Sanic()
+
+@app.get("/")
+def hello(request):
+    return text(request.endpoint)
+```
diff --git a/sanic/app.py b/sanic/app.py
index 8f70b6e7..8f621599 100644
--- a/sanic/app.py
+++ b/sanic/app.py
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ class Sanic:
         def response(handler):
             async def websocket_handler(request, *args, **kwargs):
                 request.app = self
+                request.endpoint = handler.__name__
                 try:
                     protocol = request.transport.get_protocol()
                 except AttributeError:
@@ -540,6 +541,7 @@ class Sanic:
 
                 # Fetch handler from router
                 handler, args, kwargs, uri = self.router.get(request)
+                request.endpoint = handler.__name__
                 request.uri_template = uri
                 if handler is None:
                     raise ServerError(
diff --git a/sanic/request.py b/sanic/request.py
index 26f19baf..2893a5b7 100644
--- a/sanic/request.py
+++ b/sanic/request.py
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ class Request(dict):
     __slots__ = (
         'app', 'headers', 'version', 'method', '_cookies', 'transport',
         'body', 'parsed_json', 'parsed_args', 'parsed_form', 'parsed_files',
-        '_ip', '_parsed_url', 'uri_template', 'stream', '_remote_addr'
+        '_ip', '_parsed_url', 'uri_template', 'stream', '_remote_addr',
+        'endpoint',
     )
 
     def __init__(self, url_bytes, headers, version, method, transport):
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ class Request(dict):
         self.uri_template = None
         self._cookies = None
         self.stream = None
+        self.endpoint = None
 
     def __repr__(self):
         if self.method is None or not self.path:
diff --git a/tests/test_requests.py b/tests/test_requests.py
index f0696c7f..1f98673d 100644
--- a/tests/test_requests.py
+++ b/tests/test_requests.py
@@ -369,3 +369,14 @@ def test_url_attributes_with_ssl(path, query, expected_url):
     assert parsed.path == request.path
     assert parsed.query == request.query_string
     assert parsed.netloc == request.host
+
+def test_endpoint_name():
+    app = Sanic('test_text')
+
+    @app.route('/')
+    def my_unique_handler(request):
+        return text('Hello')
+
+    request, response = app.test_client.get('/')
+
+    assert request.endpoint == 'my_unique_handler'