diff --git a/stdlib/UUIDs/docs/src/index.md b/stdlib/UUIDs/docs/src/index.md
index 3b936e7c82178..4c2f6a5e33c58 100644
--- a/stdlib/UUIDs/docs/src/index.md
+++ b/stdlib/UUIDs/docs/src/index.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ DocTestSetup = :(using UUIDs, Random)
 ```@docs
 UUIDs.uuid1
 UUIDs.uuid4
+UUIDs.uuid5
 UUIDs.uuid_version
 ```
 
diff --git a/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl b/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl
index bf618cd6eeff3..6a5e0adb79102 100644
--- a/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl
+++ b/stdlib/UUIDs/src/UUIDs.jl
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ module UUIDs
 
 using Random
 
-export UUID, uuid1, uuid4, uuid_version
+import SHA
+
+export UUID, uuid1, uuid4, uuid5, uuid_version
 
 import Base: UUID
 
@@ -22,6 +24,13 @@ julia> uuid_version(uuid4())
 """
 uuid_version(u::UUID) = Int((u.value >> 76) & 0xf)
 
+# Some UUID namespaces provided in the appendix of RFC 4122
+# https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122.html#appendix-C
+const namespace_dns  = UUID(0x6ba7b8109dad11d180b400c04fd430c8) # 6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8
+const namespace_url  = UUID(0x6ba7b8119dad11d180b400c04fd430c8) # 6ba7b811-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8
+const namespace_oid  = UUID(0x6ba7b8129dad11d180b400c04fd430c8) # 6ba7b812-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8
+const namespace_x500 = UUID(0x6ba7b8149dad11d180b400c04fd430c8) # 6ba7b814-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8
+
 """
     uuid1([rng::AbstractRNG=GLOBAL_RNG]) -> UUID
 
@@ -81,4 +90,40 @@ function uuid4(rng::AbstractRNG=Random.GLOBAL_RNG)
     UUID(u)
 end
 
+"""
+    uuid5(ns::UUID, name::String) -> UUID
+
+Generates a version 5 (namespace and domain-based) universally unique identifier (UUID),
+as specified by RFC 4122.
+
+# Examples
+```jldoctest
+julia> rng = MersenneTwister(1234);
+
+julia> u4 = uuid4(rng)
+UUID("196f2941-2d58-45ba-9f13-43a2532b2fa8")
+
+julia> u5 = uuid5(u4, "julia")
+UUID("b37756f8-b0c0-54cd-a466-19b3d25683bc")
+```
+"""
+function uuid5(ns::UUID, name::String)
+    nsbytes = zeros(UInt8, 16)
+    nsv = ns.value
+    for idx in Base.OneTo(16)
+        nsbytes[idx] = nsv >> 120
+        nsv = nsv << 8
+    end
+    hash_result = SHA.sha1(append!(nsbytes, convert(Vector{UInt8}, codeunits(unescape_string(name)))))
+    # set version number to 5
+    hash_result[7] = (hash_result[7] & 0x0F) | (0x50)
+    hash_result[9] = (hash_result[9] & 0x3F) | (0x80)
+    v = zero(UInt128)
+    #use only the first 16 bytes of the SHA1 hash
+    for idx in Base.OneTo(16)
+        v = (v << 0x08) | hash_result[idx]
+    end
+    return UUID(v)
+end
+
 end
diff --git a/stdlib/UUIDs/test/runtests.jl b/stdlib/UUIDs/test/runtests.jl
index aa8a78307b0c8..8258ac3f27d68 100644
--- a/stdlib/UUIDs/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/stdlib/UUIDs/test/runtests.jl
@@ -4,13 +4,53 @@ using Test, UUIDs, Random
 
 u1 = uuid1()
 u4 = uuid4()
+u5 = uuid5(u1, "julia")
 @test uuid_version(u1) == 1
 @test uuid_version(u4) == 4
+@test uuid_version(u5) == 5
 @test u1 == UUID(string(u1)) == UUID(GenericString(string(u1)))
 @test u4 == UUID(string(u4)) == UUID(GenericString(string(u4)))
+@test u5 == UUID(string(u5)) == UUID(GenericString(string(u5)))
 @test u1 == UUID(UInt128(u1))
 @test u4 == UUID(UInt128(u4))
+@test u5 == UUID(UInt128(u5))
 @test uuid4(MersenneTwister(0)) == uuid4(MersenneTwister(0))
 @test_throws ArgumentError UUID("550e8400e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000")
 @test_throws ArgumentError UUID("550e8400e29b-41d4-a716-44665544000098")
 @test_throws ArgumentError UUID("z50e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000")
+
+# results similar to Python builtin uuid
+# To reproduce the sequence
+#=
+import uuid
+uuids = [uuid.UUID("22b4a8a1-e548-4eeb-9270-60426d66a48e")]
+for _ in range(5):
+    uuids.append(uuid.uuid5(uuids[-1], "julia"))
+=#
+
+const following_uuids = [
+    UUID("22b4a8a1-e548-4eeb-9270-60426d66a48e"),
+    UUID("30ea6cfd-c270-569f-b4cb-795dead63686"),
+    UUID("31099374-e3a0-5fde-9482-791c639bf29b"),
+    UUID("6b34b357-a348-53aa-8c71-fb9b06c3a51e"),
+    UUID("fdbd7d4d-c462-59cc-ae6a-0c3b010240e2"),
+    UUID("d8cc6298-75d5-57e0-996c-279259ab365c"),
+]
+
+for (idx, init_uuid) in enumerate(following_uuids[1:end-1])
+    next_id = uuid5(init_uuid, "julia")
+    @test next_id == following_uuids[idx+1]
+end
+
+# Python-generated UUID following each of the standard namespaces
+const standard_namespace_uuids = [
+    (UUIDs.namespace_dns,  UUID("00ca23ad-40ef-500c-a910-157de3950d07")),
+    (UUIDs.namespace_oid,  UUID("b7bf72b0-fb4e-538b-952a-3be296f07f6d")),
+    (UUIDs.namespace_url,  UUID("997cd5be-4705-5439-9fe6-d77b18d612e5")),
+    (UUIDs.namespace_x500, UUID("993c6684-82e7-5cdb-bd46-9bff0362e6a9")),
+]
+
+for (init_uuid, next_uuid) in standard_namespace_uuids
+    result = uuid5(init_uuid, "julia")
+    @test next_uuid == result
+end