diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/cycle-initialization.ts b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/cycle-initialization.ts
index a191d8420..092588a6e 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/cycle-initialization.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/cycle-initialization.ts
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ interface ClassReference {
   name: string;
 }
 
+/** The static field storage of a flag without a class. */
+const NO_STATIC_GLOBALS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set();
+
 /** Registers the initialization flags after global collection. Bindings
  * whose early access has no exact representation are refused: a `var`
  * (Node reads `undefined` there, but module storage only starts when the
@@ -492,7 +495,8 @@ function rewriteFunction(
   for (const [className, flag] of lowerer.classInitFlags) {
     if (!runsEarly(flag) || fn.name.startsWith(`%${className}.`)) continue;
     classes.set(className, flag);
-    for (const id of flag.staticGlobals ?? []) statics.set(id, [...(statics.get(id) ?? []), flag]);
+    for (const id of flag.staticGlobals ?? NO_STATIC_GLOBALS)
+      statics.set(id, [...(statics.get(id) ?? []), flag]);
   }
   if (active.size === 0 && classes.size === 0) return;
   const flagOf = (localId: string, loc: SrcLoc): CycleInitFlag | undefined =>
@@ -660,7 +664,7 @@ function rewriteFunction(
     for (const [className, flag] of [...classes]) {
       if (flag.module !== initOf || !setsFlag(s, flag)) continue;
       classes.delete(className);
-      for (const id of flag.staticGlobals ?? []) {
+      for (const id of flag.staticGlobals ?? NO_STATIC_GLOBALS) {
         const rest = statics.get(id)!.filter((other) => other !== flag);
         if (rest.length > 0) statics.set(id, rest);
         else statics.delete(id);
diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-classes.ts b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-classes.ts
index a31a62e61..c33134488 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-classes.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-classes.ts
@@ -5408,8 +5408,18 @@ export function lowerStaticFieldRead(
   }
   // `C.name` — the JS-observable class name, a compile-time constant on
   // the direct spelling (tsc rejects user statics named `name`, so the
-  // chain above can never shadow it in TypeScript sources).
+  // chain above can never shadow it in TypeScript sources). A class of an
+  // import cycle reads it from its class object instead, whose reference
+  // checks the class's initialization (checkCycleBindingAccesses).
   if (expr.name.text === "name" && info.def.jsName !== undefined) {
+    if (lowerer.classInitFlags.get(info.def.name)?.cycle === true)
+      return {
+        kind: "libCall",
+        fn: "class.name",
+        args: [classValueRef(lowerer, info, expr.expression)],
+        type: STRING,
+        loc,
+      };
     return { kind: "strLit", value: info.def.jsName, type: STRING, loc };
   }
   if (info.callableBase)
diff --git a/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/main.ts b/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/main.ts
index 60555b264..5a87865cc 100644
--- a/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/main.ts
+++ b/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/main.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import {
   earlyMethod,
   earlyInherited,
   earlyInheritedField,
+  earlyName,
+  earlyRenamedName,
   earlyRenamed,
   earlyCap,
 } from "./stats.ts";
@@ -15,7 +17,9 @@ console.log("early:", early);
 console.log("early method:", earlyMethod);
 console.log("early inherited:", earlyInherited);
 console.log("early inherited field:", earlyInheritedField);
+console.log("early name:", earlyName);
+console.log("early renamed name:", earlyRenamedName);
 console.log("early renamed:", earlyRenamed);
 console.log("early renamed constant:", earlyCap);
 console.log("probed:", probed);
-console.log("late:", new Sink("late").tag, Sink.describe(), Sink.hello(), Sink.count);
+console.log("late:", new Sink("late").tag, Sink.describe(), Sink.hello(), Sink.count, Sink.name);
diff --git a/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/stats.ts b/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/stats.ts
index f1b012855..f41fa8c17 100644
--- a/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/stats.ts
+++ b/tests/corpus/6441-cycle-class-early-access/stats.ts
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ function attempt(run: () => string): string {
 
 // Each early access throws Node's ReferenceError, naming the binding the
 // access spells: construction, a static method read as a value, static
-// members inherited from a base class, the class and a constant through
-// renamed imports.
+// members inherited from a base class, the class's name, the class and a
+// constant through renamed imports.
 export const early = attempt(() => new Sink("early").tag);
 export const earlyMethod = attempt(() => {
   const describe = Sink.describe;
@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ export const earlyMethod = attempt(() => {
 });
 export const earlyInherited = attempt(() => Sink.hello());
 export const earlyInheritedField = attempt(() => String(Renamed.count));
+export const earlyName = attempt(() => Sink.name);
+export const earlyRenamedName = attempt(() => Renamed.name);
 export const earlyRenamed = attempt(() => new Renamed("renamed").tag);
 export const earlyCap = attempt(() => String(cap));
 
 export function probe(): string {
-  return `${new Sink("probe").tag} ${Sink.describe()} ${Sink.hello()} ${Sink.count} ${new Renamed("probe").tag} ${cap}`;
+  return `${new Sink("probe").tag} ${Sink.describe()} ${Sink.hello()} ${Sink.count} ${Sink.name} ${new Renamed("probe").tag} ${cap}`;
 }