diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
index cffeacf7ef5..1abe8251fac 100644
--- a/usr.bin/find/find.1
+++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)find.1	8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 18, 2012
+.Dd January 5, 2014
 .Dt FIND 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -520,6 +520,8 @@ Like
 .Ic -name ,
 but the contents of the symbolic link are matched instead of the file
 name.
+Note that this only matches broken symbolic links
+if symbolic links are being followed.
 This is a GNU find extension.
 .It Ic -ls
 This primary always evaluates to true.
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/function.c b/usr.bin/find/function.c
index b65709948bb..9f156756cc5 100644
--- a/usr.bin/find/function.c
+++ b/usr.bin/find/function.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,17 @@ f_name(PLAN *plan, FTSENT *entry)
 	ssize_t len;
 
 	if (plan->flags & F_LINK) {
-		len = readlink(entry->fts_path, fn, sizeof(fn) - 1);
+		/*
+		 * The below test both avoids obviously useless readlink()
+		 * calls and ensures that symlinks with existent target do
+		 * not match if symlinks are being followed.
+		 * Assumption: fts will stat all symlinks that are to be
+		 * followed and will return the stat information.
+		 */
+		if (entry->fts_info != FTS_NSOK && entry->fts_info != FTS_SL &&
+		    entry->fts_info != FTS_SLNONE)
+			return 0;
+		len = readlink(entry->fts_accpath, fn, sizeof(fn) - 1);
 		if (len == -1)
 			return 0;
 		fn[len] = '\0';