diff --git a/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTModuleMethodTests.m b/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTModuleMethodTests.m
index b11bffa26..a51319bb3 100644
--- a/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTModuleMethodTests.m
+++ b/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTModuleMethodTests.m
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ static BOOL RCTLogsError(void (^block)(void))
 - (void)doFooWithInteger:(__unused NSInteger)n { }
 - (void)doFooWithCGRect:(CGRect)s { _s = s; }
 
+- (void)doFoo : (__unused NSString *)foo { }
+
 - (void)testNumbersNonnull
 {
   {
@@ -121,4 +123,22 @@ static BOOL RCTLogsError(void (^block)(void))
   XCTAssertTrue(CGRectEqualToRect(r, _s));
 }
 
+- (void)testWhitespaceTolerance
+{
+  NSString *methodName = @"doFoo : \t (NSString *)foo";
+
+  __block RCTModuleMethod *method;
+  XCTAssertFalse(RCTLogsError(^{
+    method = [[RCTModuleMethod alloc] initWithObjCMethodName:methodName
+                                                JSMethodName:nil
+                                                 moduleClass:[self class]];
+  }));
+
+  XCTAssertEqualObjects(method.JSMethodName, @"doFoo");
+
+  XCTAssertFalse(RCTLogsError(^{
+    [method invokeWithBridge:nil module:self arguments:@[@"bar"]];
+  }));
+}
+
 @end
diff --git a/React/Base/RCTModuleMethod.m b/React/Base/RCTModuleMethod.m
index 21d6447b4..f484142fc 100644
--- a/React/Base/RCTModuleMethod.m
+++ b/React/Base/RCTModuleMethod.m
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ void RCTParseObjCMethodName(NSString **objCMethodName, NSArray **arguments)
       if (colonRange.location != NSNotFound) {
         methodName = [methodName substringToIndex:colonRange.location];
       }
+      methodName = [methodName stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
       RCTAssert(methodName.length, @"%@ is not a valid JS function name, please"
                 " supply an alternative using RCT_REMAP_METHOD()", objCMethodName);
       methodName;