diff --git a/base/exports.jl b/base/exports.jl
index 37da399892e43..c4a8083ce3b1f 100644
--- a/base/exports.jl
+++ b/base/exports.jl
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ export
     firstindex,
     collect,
     count,
+    delete,
     delete!,
     deleteat!,
     eltype,
diff --git a/base/namedtuple.jl b/base/namedtuple.jl
index fda848e8f66e6..87fcf08b1c981 100644
--- a/base/namedtuple.jl
+++ b/base/namedtuple.jl
@@ -280,6 +280,24 @@ get(f::Callable, nt::NamedTuple, key::Union{Integer, Symbol}) = haskey(nt, key)
     (names...,)
 end
 
+"""
+    delete(a::NamedTuple, field::Symbol)
+
+Construct a new named tuple from `a` by removing the named field.
+
+```jldoctest
+julia> delete((a=1, b=2, c=3), :a)
+(b = 2, c = 3)
+
+julia> delete((a=1, b=2, c=3), :b)
+(a = 1, c = 3)
+```
+"""
+function delete(a::NamedTuple{an}, field::Symbol) where {an}
+    names = diff_names(an, (field,))
+    NamedTuple{names}(a)
+end
+
 """
     structdiff(a::NamedTuple{an}, b::Union{NamedTuple{bn},Type{NamedTuple{bn}}}) where {an,bn}
 
diff --git a/test/namedtuple.jl b/test/namedtuple.jl
index 2d1885963f3d6..49cf825ba16e2 100644
--- a/test/namedtuple.jl
+++ b/test/namedtuple.jl
@@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ end
 abstr_nt_22194_3()
 @test Base.return_types(abstr_nt_22194_3, ()) == Any[Any]
 
+@test delete((a=1,), :a) == NamedTuple()
+@test delete((a=1, b=2), :a) == (b=2,)
+@test delete((a=1, b=2, c=3), :b) == (a=1, c=3)
+@test delete((a=1, b=2, c=3), :z) == (a=1, b=2, c=3)
+
 @test Base.structdiff((a=1, b=2), (b=3,)) == (a=1,)
 @test Base.structdiff((a=1, b=2, z=20), (b=3,)) == (a=1, z=20)
 @test Base.structdiff((a=1, b=2, z=20), (b=3, q=20, z=1)) == (a=1,)