diff --git a/library/std/src/panicking.rs b/library/std/src/panicking.rs
index b20e5464e6e01..e9a6f7b336254 100644
--- a/library/std/src/panicking.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/panicking.rs
@@ -265,10 +265,18 @@ pub fn panic_hook_with_disk_dump(info: &PanicInfo<'_>, path: Option<&crate::path
         },
     };
     let thread = thread_info::current_thread();
-    let name = thread.as_ref().and_then(|t| t.name()).unwrap_or("<unnamed>");
 
     let write = |err: &mut dyn crate::io::Write, backtrace: Option<BacktraceStyle>| {
-        let _ = writeln!(err, "thread '{name}' panicked at {location}:\n{msg}");
+        let _ = match thread.as_ref().map(|t| (t, t.name())) {
+            Some((_, Some(name))) => {
+                writeln!(err, "thread '{name}' panicked at {location}:\n{msg}")
+            }
+            Some((t, None)) => {
+                let id = t.id().as_u64();
+                writeln!(err, "thread '<unnamed>' (id {id}) panicked at {location}:\n{msg}",)
+            }
+            None => writeln!(err, "thread '<unnamed>' panicked at {location}:\n{msg}"),
+        };
 
         static FIRST_PANIC: AtomicBool = AtomicBool::new(true);
 
diff --git a/tests/ui/panics/panic-task-name-none.rs b/tests/ui/panics/panic-task-name-none.rs
index 3fb0f3412f6b8..7bc5282309baf 100644
--- a/tests/ui/panics/panic-task-name-none.rs
+++ b/tests/ui/panics/panic-task-name-none.rs
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
+// Test panic error messages for unnamed threads
+
 // run-fail
-// error-pattern:thread '<unnamed>' panicked
+// regex-error-pattern:thread '<unnamed>' \(id \d+\) panicked
 // error-pattern:test
 // ignore-emscripten Needs threads
 
 use std::thread;
 
 fn main() {
-    let r: Result<(), _> = thread::spawn(move || {
-                               panic!("test");
-                           })
-                               .join();
-    assert!(r.is_ok());
+    let _: () = thread::spawn(move || {
+        panic!("test");
+    })
+    .join()
+    .unwrap();
 }
diff --git a/tests/ui/proc-macro/load-panic-backtrace.rs b/tests/ui/proc-macro/load-panic-backtrace.rs
index bcdcb704a7538..d7be394f70ff8 100644
--- a/tests/ui/proc-macro/load-panic-backtrace.rs
+++ b/tests/ui/proc-macro/load-panic-backtrace.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // aux-build:test-macros.rs
 // compile-flags: -Z proc-macro-backtrace
 // rustc-env:RUST_BACKTRACE=0
-// normalize-stderr-test "thread '.*' panicked " -> ""
+// normalize-stderr-test "thread '.*' (\(id \d+\) )?panicked " -> ""
 // normalize-stderr-test "note:.*RUST_BACKTRACE=1.*\n" -> ""
 // needs-unwind proc macro panics to report errors
 
diff --git a/tests/ui/process/multi-panic.rs b/tests/ui/process/multi-panic.rs
index c240dc18fd366..2a8f28d22ca28 100644
--- a/tests/ui/process/multi-panic.rs
+++ b/tests/ui/process/multi-panic.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ fn check_for_no_backtrace(test: std::process::Output) {
     let err = String::from_utf8_lossy(&test.stderr);
     let mut it = err.lines();
 
-    assert_eq!(it.next().map(|l| l.starts_with("thread '<unnamed>' panicked")), Some(true));
+    assert_eq!(it.next().map(|l| l.starts_with("thread '<unnamed>' (id ")), Some(true));
     assert_eq!(it.next().is_some(), true);
     assert_eq!(it.next(), Some("note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` \
                                 environment variable to display a backtrace"));