diff --git a/law/contrib/pandas/formatter.py b/law/contrib/pandas/formatter.py
index 83425f4e..6b8d4519 100644
--- a/law/contrib/pandas/formatter.py
+++ b/law/contrib/pandas/formatter.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 class DataFrameFormatter(Formatter):
 
-    name = "dataframe"
+    name = "pandas"
 
     @classmethod
     def accepts(cls, path, mode):