diff --git a/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/kubernetes_helper_functions.py b/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/kubernetes_helper_functions.py
index 62dc351bbd1a5..9129bdf77920f 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/kubernetes_helper_functions.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/kubernetes_helper_functions.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def create_unique_id(
         name += task_id
     base_name = slugify(name, lowercase=True)[:max_length].strip(".-")
     if unique:
-        return add_pod_suffix(pod_name=base_name, rand_len=8, max_len=max_length)
+        return add_unique_suffix(name=base_name, rand_len=8, max_len=max_length)
     else:
         return base_name
 
diff --git a/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/operators/pod.py b/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/operators/pod.py
index 7f712dba2fc1f..32b361f0ccd0a 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/operators/pod.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/operators/pod.py
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
 from airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.hooks.kubernetes import KubernetesHook
 from airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.kubernetes_helper_functions import (
     POD_NAME_MAX_LENGTH,
-    add_pod_suffix,
-    create_pod_id,
+    add_unique_suffix,
+    create_unique_id,
 )
 from airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.pod_generator import PodGenerator
 from airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.triggers.pod import KubernetesPodTrigger
@@ -1049,12 +1049,12 @@ def build_pod_request_obj(self, context: Context | None = None) -> k8s.V1Pod:
         pod = PodGenerator.reconcile_pods(pod_template, pod)
 
         if not pod.metadata.name:
-            pod.metadata.name = create_pod_id(
+            pod.metadata.name = create_unique_id(
                 task_id=self.task_id, unique=self.random_name_suffix, max_length=POD_NAME_MAX_LENGTH
             )
         elif self.random_name_suffix:
             # user has supplied pod name, we're just adding suffix
-            pod.metadata.name = add_pod_suffix(pod_name=pod.metadata.name)
+            pod.metadata.name = add_unique_suffix(name=pod.metadata.name)
 
         if not pod.metadata.namespace:
             hook_namespace = self.hook.get_namespace()
diff --git a/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/pod_generator.py b/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/pod_generator.py
index e9f413985fd0c..8d78145893893 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/pod_generator.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/cncf/kubernetes/pod_generator.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 from airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.kubernetes_helper_functions import (
     POD_NAME_MAX_LENGTH,
     add_pod_suffix,
+    add_unique_suffix,
     rand_str,
 )
 from airflow.providers.cncf.kubernetes.pod_generator_deprecated import (
@@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ def construct_pod(
                 UserWarning,
                 stacklevel=2,
             )
-            pod_id = add_pod_suffix(pod_name=pod_id, max_len=POD_NAME_MAX_LENGTH)
+            pod_id = add_unique_suffix(name=pod_id, max_len=POD_NAME_MAX_LENGTH)
         try:
             image = pod_override_object.spec.containers[0].image  # type: ignore
             if not image: