diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml
index 9492784a2..02f00455c 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-ingressclass.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ metadata:
     {{- with .Values.controller.labels }}
     {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
     {{- end }}
-  name: {{ .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.name }}
+  name: {{ tpl (toYaml .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.name) . | nindent 2 }}
 {{- if .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.default }}
   annotations:
     ingressclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class: "true"