diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index cfebfb4..04e3098 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: grumpy
 Title: Read 'NumPy' '.npy' and '.npz' Files
-Version: 0.1.1.9002
+Version: 0.1.1.9003
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hugo", "Gruson", , "hugo.gruson+R@normalesup.org", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4094-1476")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7aad59f..8ce11e2 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # grumpy (development version)
 
+* Elements of structured datatypes are now named if names were provided during
+the dataset creation.
 * `read_npz()` now adds names to the list ir returns. The names are the names
 of the bundled `.npy` files without the file extension.
 
diff --git a/R/read_npy.R b/R/read_npy.R
index 18537e7..054d847 100644
--- a/R/read_npy.R
+++ b/R/read_npy.R
@@ -154,9 +154,19 @@ parse_npy_datatype <- function(descr) {
     types <- lapply(descr, function(field) {
       parse_npy_datatype(field[[2L]])
     })
+    nms <- vapply(
+      descr,
+      function(field) {
+        field[[1L]]
+      },
+      character(1L)
+    )
     return(
       list(
-        base_type = vapply(types, function(x) x$base_type, character(1L)),
+        base_type = setNames(
+          vapply(types, function(x) x$base_type, character(1L)),
+          nms
+        ),
         nbytes = vapply(types, function(x) x$nbytes, integer(1L)),
         endian = vapply(types, function(x) x$endian, character(1L))
       )
@@ -239,7 +249,7 @@ convert_bytes_to_array <- function(bytes, what, shape, size, endian) {
     field_start <- c(0L, cumsum(size)[-length(size)])
 
     # Convert each field via strided index extraction
-    res_fields <- vector("list", length(what))
+    res_fields <- vector("list", length(what)) |> setNames(names(what))
     for (i in seq_along(what)) {
       starts <- seq(
         field_start[[i]] + 1L,
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-read_npy.R b/tests/testthat/test-read_npy.R
index c38c404..b5ccf39 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-read_npy.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-read_npy.R
@@ -273,14 +273,14 @@ test_that("structured arrays work", {
     expect_identical(
       array(
         list(
-          list(1L, 3.14, "Alice"),
-          list(2L, 2.71, "Bob"),
-          list(3L, 1.62, "Charlie"),
-          list(4L, 0.0, "Dave"),
-          list(5L, -1.0, "Eve"),
-          list(6L, 2.0, "Frank"),
-          list(7L, 33.12, "Grace"),
-          list(8L, 13.9, "Hugo")
+          list(id = 1L, value = 3.14, name = "Alice"),
+          list(id = 2L, value = 2.71, name = "Bob"),
+          list(id = 3L, value = 1.62, name = "Charlie"),
+          list(id = 4L, value = 0.0, name = "Dave"),
+          list(id = 5L, value = -1.0, name = "Eve"),
+          list(id = 6L, value = 2.0, name = "Frank"),
+          list(id = 7L, value = 33.12, name = "Grace"),
+          list(id = 8L, value = 13.9, name = "Hugo")
         ),
         dim = c(2L, 4L)
       )