diff --git a/frontends/verific/verific.cc b/frontends/verific/verific.cc
index 62307a45961..804b6676b6b 100644
--- a/frontends/verific/verific.cc
+++ b/frontends/verific/verific.cc
@@ -1275,6 +1275,7 @@ void VerificImporter::import_netlist(RTLIL::Design *design, Netlist *nl, std::ma
 		log("Importing module %s.\n", RTLIL::id2cstr(module->name));
 	}
 	import_attributes(module->attributes, nl, nl);
+	module->set_string_attribute(ID::hdlname, nl->CellBaseName());
 	const char *param_name ;
 	const char *param_value ;
 	MapIter mi;