diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index e29ee3843..57132d731 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Changelog
  * Fix: Disabled use of escape key to revert content of rich text fields, which could cause accidental data loss (Matt Westcott)
  * Fix: Setting `USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True` no longer breaks the rendering of numbers in JS code for InlinePanel (Mattias Loverot, Matt Westcott)
  * Fix: Images / documents pagination now preserves GET parameters (Bojan Mihelac)
+ * Fix: Wagtail's UserProfile model now sets a related_name of ``wagtail_userprofile`` to avoid naming collisions with other user profile models (Matt Westcott)
 
 
 1.6.3 (30.09.2016)
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.rst b/docs/releases/1.7.rst
index 533cf3ad9..371854bc9 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.rst
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ Bug fixes
  * Disabled use of escape key to revert content of rich text fields, which could cause accidental data loss (Matt Westcott)
  * Setting ``USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True`` no longer breaks the rendering of numbers in JS code for InlinePanel (Mattias Loverot, Matt Westcott)
  * Images / documents pagination now preserves GET parameters (Bojan Mihelac)
+ * Wagtail's UserProfile model now sets a related_name of ``wagtail_userprofile`` to avoid naming collisions with other user profile models (Matt Westcott)
 
 
 Upgrade considerations
diff --git a/wagtail/tests/testapp/migrations/0011_userprofile.py b/wagtail/tests/testapp/migrations/0011_userprofile.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3095b0e8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wagtail/tests/testapp/migrations/0011_userprofile.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.10.1 on 2016-09-28 23:49
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.db import migrations, models
+import django.db.models.deletion
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        migrations.swappable_dependency(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+        ('tests', '0010_auto_20160823_1056'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='UserProfile',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('favourite_colour', models.CharField(max_length=255)),
+                ('user', models.OneToOneField(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)),
+            ],
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py b/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py
index 552c3919a..42b46966e 100644
--- a/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py
+++ b/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py
@@ -875,3 +875,9 @@ class InlineStreamPage(Page):
         FieldPanel('title', classname="full title"),
         InlinePanel('sections')
     ]
+
+
+class UserProfile(models.Model):
+    # Wagtail's schema must be able to coexist alongside a custom UserProfile model
+    user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
+    favourite_colour = models.CharField(max_length=255)
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailusers/migrations/0005_make_related_name_wagtail_specific.py b/wagtail/wagtailusers/migrations/0005_make_related_name_wagtail_specific.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ecf69345a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailusers/migrations/0005_make_related_name_wagtail_specific.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.10.1 on 2016-09-28 23:49
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.db import migrations, models
+import django.db.models.deletion
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('wagtailusers', '0004_capitalizeverbose'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='userprofile',
+            name='user',
+            field=models.OneToOneField(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, related_name='wagtail_userprofile', to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailusers/models.py b/wagtail/wagtailusers/models.py
index a4f8552e7..f4af3276b 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailusers/models.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailusers/models.py
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 @python_2_unicode_compatible
 class UserProfile(models.Model):
-    user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
+    user = models.OneToOneField(
+        settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='wagtail_userprofile'
+    )
 
     submitted_notifications = models.BooleanField(
         verbose_name=_('submitted notifications'),
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailusers/tests.py b/wagtail/wagtailusers/tests.py
index cfcf082b8..c20f39d56 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailusers/tests.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailusers/tests.py
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ class TestUserProfileCreation(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
     def test_user_created_without_profile(self):
         self.assertEqual(UserProfile.objects.filter(user=self.test_user).count(), 0)
         with self.assertRaises(UserProfile.DoesNotExist):
-            self.test_user.userprofile
+            self.test_user.wagtail_userprofile
 
     def test_user_profile_created_when_method_called(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(UserProfile.get_for_user(self.test_user), UserProfile)