diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3a290e2b3e..68ba41d95e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Name the device-info caching thread `SentryDeviceInfoCache` so all threads spawned by the SDK are identifiable ([#5684](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5684))
+
 ## 8.47.0
 
 ### Behavioral Changes
diff --git a/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/DefaultAndroidEventProcessor.java b/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/DefaultAndroidEventProcessor.java
index 7671935bb0..83f892573e 100644
--- a/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/DefaultAndroidEventProcessor.java
+++ b/sentry-android-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/android/core/DefaultAndroidEventProcessor.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 import java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.TestOnly;
@@ -56,7 +57,8 @@ public DefaultAndroidEventProcessor(
     // noinspection Convert2MethodRef
     // some device info performs disk I/O, but it's result is cached, let's pre-cache it
     @Nullable Future<DeviceInfoUtil> deviceInfoUtil;
-    final @NotNull ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
+    final @NotNull ExecutorService executorService =
+        Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor(new DeviceInfoCacheThreadFactory());
     try {
       deviceInfoUtil =
           executorService.submit(() -> DeviceInfoUtil.getInstance(this.context, options));
@@ -425,4 +427,13 @@ private void setSideLoadedInfo(final @NotNull SentryBaseEvent event) {
   public @Nullable Long getOrder() {
     return 8000L;
   }
+
+  private static final class DeviceInfoCacheThreadFactory implements ThreadFactory {
+    @Override
+    public @NotNull Thread newThread(final @NotNull Runnable r) {
+      final Thread ret = new Thread(r, "SentryDeviceInfoCache");
+      ret.setDaemon(true);
+      return ret;
+    }
+  }
 }