diff --git a/R/matchCohorts.R b/R/matchCohorts.R
index 002d98e..1028162 100644
--- a/R/matchCohorts.R
+++ b/R/matchCohorts.R
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ matchCohorts <- function(cohort,
         dplyr::left_join(
           settings(cdm[[target]]) |>
             dplyr::mutate(
-              "cohort_name" = paste0(.data$cohort_name, "_matched")) |>
+              "cohort_name" = paste0(.data$cohort_name, "_sampled")) |>
             dplyr::select("cohort_definition_id", "target_cohort_name" = "cohort_name"),
           by = "cohort_definition_id"
         ) |>
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ matchCohorts <- function(cohort,
       cohortSetRef = settings(cdm[[target]]) |>
         dplyr::select("cohort_definition_id", "cohort_name") |>
         dplyr::mutate(
-          "cohort_name" = paste0(.data$cohort_name, "_matched")) |>
+          "cohort_name" = paste0(.data$cohort_name, "_sampled")) |>
         dplyr::mutate(
           "target_table_name" = omopgenerics::tableName(cohort),
           "target_cohort_id" = .data$cohort_definition_id,
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ getNewCohort <- function(cohort, cohortId, control) {
     dplyr::relocate(dplyr::all_of(omopgenerics::cohortColumns("cohort"))) |>
     omopgenerics::newCohortTable(
       cohortSetRef = settings(cohort) |>
-        dplyr::mutate("cohort_name" = paste0("matched_to_", .data$cohort_name)),
+        dplyr::mutate("cohort_name" = paste0(.data$cohort_name, "_matched")),
       cohortAttritionRef = dplyr::tibble(
         "cohort_definition_id" = as.integer(cohortId),
         "number_records" = controls |> dplyr::tally() |> dplyr::pull() |> as.integer(),
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-matchCohorts.R b/tests/testthat/test-matchCohorts.R
index 50d8bfa..ef8fbb4 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-matchCohorts.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-matchCohorts.R
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ test_that("test exactMatchingCohort with a ratio bigger than 1", {
     cdm[["new_cohort"]] |>
       cohortCount() |>
       dplyr::filter(.data$cohort_definition_id %in% omopgenerics::getCohortId(
-        cdm$new_cohort, "cohort_1_matched"
+        cdm$new_cohort, "cohort_1_sampled"
       )) |>
       dplyr::pull("number_subjects") |>
       sum() == 2
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ test_that("test exactMatchingCohort with a ratio bigger than 1", {
     cdm[["new_cohort"]] |>
       cohortCount() |>
       dplyr::filter(.data$cohort_definition_id %in% omopgenerics::getCohortId(
-        cdm$new_cohort, "matched_to_cohort_1"
+        cdm$new_cohort, "cohort_1_matched"
       )) |>
       dplyr::pull("number_subjects") |>
       sum() == 8
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ test_that("test exactMatchingCohort with a ratio bigger than 1", {
     cdm[["new_cohort"]] |>
       cohortCount() |>
       dplyr::filter(.data$cohort_definition_id %in% omopgenerics::getCohortId(
-        cdm$new_cohort, "cohort_2_matched"
+        cdm$new_cohort, "cohort_2_sampled"
       )) |>
       dplyr::pull("number_subjects") |>
       sum() == 2
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ test_that("test exactMatchingCohort with a ratio bigger than 1", {
     cdm[["new_cohort"]] |>
       cohortCount() |>
       dplyr::filter(.data$cohort_definition_id %in% omopgenerics::getCohortId(
-        cdm$new_cohort, "matched_to_cohort_2"
+        cdm$new_cohort, "cohort_2_matched"
       )) |>
       dplyr::pull("number_subjects") |>
       sum() == 8
@@ -287,10 +287,10 @@ test_that("keepOriginalCohorts works" , {
   cohort <- cdm$cohort2 |> matchCohorts(cohortId = 1, keepOriginalCohorts = TRUE, name = "new_cohort")
   expect_identical(settings(cohort), dplyr::tibble(
       cohort_definition_id = as.integer(1:3),
-      cohort_name = c("cohort_1", "cohort_1_matched", "matched_to_cohort_1"),
+      cohort_name = c("cohort_1", "cohort_1_sampled", "cohort_1_matched"),
       target_table_name = c(NA, rep("cohort2", 2)),
       target_cohort_id = c(NA, 1L, 1L),
-      target_cohort_name = c(NA, "cohort_1_matched", "cohort_1_matched"),
+      target_cohort_name = c(NA, "cohort_1_sampled", "cohort_1_sampled"),
       match_sex = c(NA, rep(TRUE, 2)),
       match_year_of_birth = c(NA, rep(TRUE, 2)),
       match_status = c(NA, "target", "control")
@@ -298,10 +298,10 @@ test_that("keepOriginalCohorts works" , {
   cohort <- cdm$cohort2 |> matchCohorts(keepOriginalCohorts = TRUE)
   expect_identical(settings(cohort), dplyr::tibble(
       cohort_definition_id = as.integer(1:6),
-      cohort_name = c("cohort_1", "cohort_2", "cohort_1_matched", "cohort_2_matched", "matched_to_cohort_1", "matched_to_cohort_2"),
+      cohort_name = c("cohort_1", "cohort_2", "cohort_1_sampled", "cohort_2_sampled", "cohort_1_matched", "cohort_2_matched"),
       target_table_name = c(NA, NA, rep("cohort2", 4)),
       target_cohort_id = c(NA, NA, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L),
-      target_cohort_name = c(NA, NA, "cohort_1_matched", "cohort_2_matched", "cohort_1_matched", "cohort_2_matched"),
+      target_cohort_name = c(NA, NA, "cohort_1_sampled", "cohort_2_sampled", "cohort_1_sampled", "cohort_2_sampled"),
       match_sex = c(NA, NA, rep(TRUE, 4)),
       match_year_of_birth = c(NA, NA, rep(TRUE, 4)),
       match_status = c(NA, NA, "target", "target", "control", "control")