diff --git a/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts b/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts
index 126702dfad2b..9965261970f2 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/tracing/sentrySpan.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { getMetricSummaryJsonForSpan } from '../metrics/metric-summary';
 import {
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_EXCLUSIVE_TIME,
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_PROFILE_ID,
+  SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_CUSTOM_SPAN_NAME,
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_OP,
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN,
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_SOURCE,
@@ -355,6 +356,14 @@ export class SentrySpan implements Span {
 
     const source = this._attributes[SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_SOURCE] as TransactionSource | undefined;
 
+    // remove internal root span attributes we don't need to send.
+    /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-dynamic-delete */
+    delete this._attributes[SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_CUSTOM_SPAN_NAME];
+    spans.forEach(span => {
+      span.data && delete span.data[SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_CUSTOM_SPAN_NAME];
+    });
+    // eslint-enabled-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-dynamic-delete
+
     const transaction: TransactionEvent = {
       contexts: {
         trace: spanToTransactionTraceContext(this),
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry/src/spanExporter.ts b/packages/opentelemetry/src/spanExporter.ts
index a8d5affa4646..bff6518eb27d 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry/src/spanExporter.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry/src/spanExporter.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import type {
   TransactionSource,
 } from '@sentry/core';
 import {
+  SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_CUSTOM_SPAN_NAME,
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_OP,
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN,
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_SAMPLE_RATE,
@@ -392,6 +393,7 @@ function removeSentryAttributes(data: Record<string, unknown>): Record<string, u
   /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-dynamic-delete */
   delete cleanedData[SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_SAMPLE_RATE];
   delete cleanedData[SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_PARENT_IS_REMOTE];
+  delete cleanedData[SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_CUSTOM_SPAN_NAME];
   /* eslint-enable @typescript-eslint/no-dynamic-delete */
 
   return cleanedData;