diff --git a/man7/xattr.7 b/man7/xattr.7
index eb8b7e74b..8ac675b25 100644
--- a/man7/xattr.7
+++ b/man7/xattr.7
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\" License along with this manual.  If not, see
 .\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .\"
-.TH ATTR 5
+.TH XATTR 7
 .SH NAME
 attr - Extended attributes
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ Since the filesystems on which extended attributes are stored might also
 be used on architectures with a different byte order and machine word
 size, care should be taken to store attribute values in an
 architecture-independent format.
+
+This page was formerly named
+.BR attr (5).
 .\" .SH AUTHORS
 .\" Andreas Gruenbacher,
 .\" .RI < a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at >