diff --git a/framework/CHANGELOG.md b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
index b21d362d7e..776e6ef5b0 100644
--- a/framework/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Bug #2527: Source language for `app` message category was always `en` no matter which application `sourceLanguage` was used (samdark)
 - Bug #2559: Going back on browser history breaks GridView filtering with `Pjax` (tonydspaniard)
 - Bug #2607: `yii message` tool wasn't updating `message` table (mitalcoi)
+- Bug #2624: Html::textArea() should respect "name" option. (qiangxue)
 - Bug: Fixed `Call to a member function registerAssetFiles() on a non-object` in case of wrong `sourcePath` for an asset bundle (samdark)
 - Bug: Fixed incorrect event name for `yii\jui\Spinner` (samdark)
 - Bug: Json::encode() did not handle objects that implement JsonSerializable interface correctly (cebe)
diff --git a/framework/helpers/BaseHtml.php b/framework/helpers/BaseHtml.php
index 4e761fa51f..8585c9756f 100644
--- a/framework/helpers/BaseHtml.php
+++ b/framework/helpers/BaseHtml.php
@@ -1140,12 +1140,12 @@ class BaseHtml
 	 * about attribute expression.
 	 * @param array $options the tag options in terms of name-value pairs. These will be rendered as
 	 * the attributes of the resulting tag. The values will be HTML-encoded using [[encode()]].
-	 * See [[renderTagAttributes()]] for details on how these are beeing rendered.
+	 * See [[renderTagAttributes()]] for details on how these are being rendered.
 	 * @return string the generated textarea tag
 	 */
 	public static function activeTextarea($model, $attribute, $options = [])
 	{
-		$name = static::getInputName($model, $attribute);
+		$name = isset($options['name']) ? $options['name'] : static::getInputName($model, $attribute);
 		$value = static::getAttributeValue($model, $attribute);
 		if (!array_key_exists('id', $options)) {
 			$options['id'] = static::getInputId($model, $attribute);