diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 0e84f18dd4d5d5..2f8924705c2336 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| utf_8 | U8, UTF, utf8, cp65001 | all languages |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| utf_8_sig | | all languages |
+| utf_8_sig | utf8-sig | all languages |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
.. versionchanged:: 3.4
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
index 4ecb6b6e297a13..912dc7c2138f91 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
"""
aliases = {
- # Please keep this list sorted alphabetically by value !
+ # Please keep this list sorted alphabetically by value!
# ascii codec
'646' : 'ascii',
@@ -545,6 +545,9 @@
'utf8_ucs4' : 'utf_8',
'cp65001' : 'utf_8',
+ # utf_8_sig codec
+ 'utf8_sig' : 'utf_8_sig',
+
# uu_codec codec
'uu' : 'uu_codec',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-07-11-08-15-17.gh-issue-83336.ptpmq7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-07-11-08-15-17.gh-issue-83336.ptpmq7.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..022ff664ed94df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-07-11-08-15-17.gh-issue-83336.ptpmq7.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+``utf8_sig`` is now aliased to :mod:`encodings.utf_8_sig`
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