diff --git a/cc/cc.go b/cc/cc.go
index 9c555a1..ae82b9e 100644
--- a/cc/cc.go
+++ b/cc/cc.go
@@ -1858,6 +1858,10 @@
 		if c.SplitPerApiLevel() {
 			subName += "." + c.SdkVersion()
 		}
+	} else if c.IsStubs() && c.IsSdkVariant() {
+		// Public API surface (NDK)
+		// Add a suffix to this stub variant to distinguish it from the module-lib stub variant.
+		subName = sdkSuffix
 	}
 
 	return subName