diff --git a/media/codec2/components/aom/Android.bp b/media/codec2/components/aom/Android.bp
index 0fabf5c..61dbd4c 100644
--- a/media/codec2/components/aom/Android.bp
+++ b/media/codec2/components/aom/Android.bp
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 cc_library_shared {
-    name: "libcodec2_soft_av1dec",
+    name: "libcodec2_soft_av1dec_aom",
     defaults: [
         "libcodec2_soft-defaults",
         "libcodec2_soft_sanitize_all-defaults",
     ],
 
+    // coordinated with frameworks/av/media/codec2/components/gav1/Android.bp
+    // so only 1 of them has the official c2.android.av1.decoder name
+    cflags: [
+        "-DCODECNAME=\"c2.android.av1-aom.decoder\"",
+    ],
+
     srcs: ["C2SoftAomDec.cpp"],
     static_libs: ["libaom"],
 
diff --git a/media/codec2/components/aom/C2SoftAomDec.cpp b/media/codec2/components/aom/C2SoftAomDec.cpp
index 0cf277f..36137e6 100644
--- a/media/codec2/components/aom/C2SoftAomDec.cpp
+++ b/media/codec2/components/aom/C2SoftAomDec.cpp
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
 
 namespace android {
 
-constexpr char COMPONENT_NAME[] = "c2.android.av1.decoder";
+// codecname set and passed in as a compile flag from Android.bp
+constexpr char COMPONENT_NAME[] = CODECNAME;
 
 class C2SoftAomDec::IntfImpl : public SimpleInterface<void>::BaseParams {
   public:
diff --git a/media/codec2/components/gav1/Android.bp b/media/codec2/components/gav1/Android.bp
index 0a0545d..5c4abb7 100644
--- a/media/codec2/components/gav1/Android.bp
+++ b/media/codec2/components/gav1/Android.bp
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 cc_library_shared {
-    name: "libcodec2_soft_gav1dec",
+    name: "libcodec2_soft_av1dec_gav1",
     defaults: [
         "libcodec2_soft-defaults",
         "libcodec2_soft_sanitize_all-defaults",
     ],
 
+    // coordinated with frameworks/av/media/codec2/components/aom/Android.bp
+    // so only 1 of them has the official c2.android.av1.decoder name
+    cflags: [
+        "-DCODECNAME=\"c2.android.av1.decoder\"",
+    ],
+
     srcs: ["C2SoftGav1Dec.cpp"],
     static_libs: ["libgav1"],
 
diff --git a/media/codec2/components/gav1/C2SoftGav1Dec.cpp b/media/codec2/components/gav1/C2SoftGav1Dec.cpp
index f5321ba..ec5f549 100644
--- a/media/codec2/components/gav1/C2SoftGav1Dec.cpp
+++ b/media/codec2/components/gav1/C2SoftGav1Dec.cpp
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 
 namespace android {
 
-constexpr char COMPONENT_NAME[] = "c2.android.gav1.decoder";
+// codecname set and passed in as a compile flag from Android.bp
+constexpr char COMPONENT_NAME[] = CODECNAME;
 
 class C2SoftGav1Dec::IntfImpl : public SimpleInterface<void>::BaseParams {
  public: