diff --git a/components/sock_utils/CMakeLists.txt b/components/sock_utils/CMakeLists.txt
index 4f4e189835..87c5e0ee01 100644
--- a/components/sock_utils/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/sock_utils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ idf_component_register(SRCS "src/getnameinfo.c"
                             "src/ifaddrs.c"
                             "src/gai_strerror.c"
                             "src/socketpair.c"
+                            "src/gethostname.c"
                        INCLUDE_DIRS "include"
                        PRIV_REQUIRES lwip esp_netif)
diff --git a/components/sock_utils/include/gethostname.h b/components/sock_utils/include/gethostname.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b43ed236a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/sock_utils/include/gethostname.h
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "sdkconfig.h"
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_IDF_TARGET_LINUX
+// namespace with esp_ on linux to avoid conflict of symbols
+#define gethostname esp_gethostname
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * @brief Retrieves the hostname of the device.
+ *
+ * This function provides the hostname associated with the network interface.
+ * Unlike the standard behavior where the hostname represents a system-wide name,
+ * this implementation returns lwip netif hostname (used as a hostname in DHCP packets)
+ *
+ * @param[out] name A pointer to a buffer where the hostname will be stored.
+ *                  The buffer must be allocated by the caller.
+ * @param[in] len   The size of the buffer pointed to by @p name. The hostname,
+ *                  including the null-terminator, must fit within this size.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   - 0 on success
+ *   - -1 on error, with `errno` set to indicate the error:
+ *     - `EINVAL`: Invalid argument, name is NULL, or hostname is too long
+ *
+ * @note This implementation retrieves the hostname associated with the network
+ * interface using the `esp_netif_get_hostname()` function, which in turn
+ * returns lwip netif hostname used in DHCP packets if LWIP_NETIF_HOSTNAME=1 (hardcoded)
+ * in ESP-IDF lwip port.
+ * As there could be multiple network interfaces in the system, the logic tries
+ * to find the default (active) netif first, then it looks for any (inactive) netif
+ * with highest route priority. If none of the above found or esp_netif_get_hostname() fails
+ * for the selected interface, this API returns the default value of `CONFIG_LWIP_LOCAL_HOSTNAME`,
+ * the local hostname from lwip component configuration menu.
+ */
+int gethostname(char *name, size_t len);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/components/sock_utils/src/gethostname.c b/components/sock_utils/src/gethostname.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b9941ed5d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/sock_utils/src/gethostname.c
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+#include <string.h>
+#include "gethostname.h"
+#include "esp_netif.h"
+#include "errno.h"
+#include "esp_log.h"
+
+
+static bool highest_prio_netif(esp_netif_t *netif, void *ctx)
+{
+    esp_netif_t **highest_so_far = ctx;
+    if (esp_netif_get_route_prio(netif) > esp_netif_get_route_prio(*highest_so_far)) {
+        *highest_so_far = netif;
+    }
+    return false;   // go over the entire list to find the netif with the highest route-prio
+}
+
+int gethostname(char *name, size_t len)
+{
+    if (name == NULL) {
+        errno = EINVAL;
+        return -1;
+    }
+    const char *netif_hostname = CONFIG_LWIP_LOCAL_HOSTNAME;    // default value from Kconfig
+
+    // Find the default netif
+    esp_netif_t *default_netif = esp_netif_get_default_netif();
+    if (default_netif == NULL) {    // if no netif is active/up -> find the highest prio netif
+        esp_netif_find_if(highest_prio_netif, &default_netif);
+    }
+    // now the `default_netif` could be NULL and/or the esp_netif_get_hostname() could fail
+    // but we ignore the return code, as if it fails, the `netif_hostname` still holds the default value
+    esp_netif_get_hostname(default_netif, &netif_hostname);
+
+    if (netif_hostname == NULL || len < strlen(netif_hostname) + 1) { // including the NULL terminator
+        errno = EINVAL;
+        return -1;
+    }
+    strcpy(name, netif_hostname);
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/components/sock_utils/test/host/main/test_sock_utils.cpp b/components/sock_utils/test/host/main/test_sock_utils.cpp
index e1d3facf6d..fbd77a3ac0 100644
--- a/components/sock_utils/test/host/main/test_sock_utils.cpp
+++ b/components/sock_utils/test/host/main/test_sock_utils.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
+#include "gethostname.h"
 #include "ifaddrs.h"
 #include "esp_netif.h"
 #include "esp_event.h"
@@ -148,6 +149,30 @@ TEST_CASE("gai_strerror()", "[sock_utils]")
     CHECK(str_error != NULL);
 }
 
+TEST_CASE("gethostname()", "[sock_utils]")
+{
+    const char *test_netif_name = "station";
+    char hostname[32];
+    int ret;
+
+    // expect failure
+    ret = gethostname(hostname, strlen(CONFIG_LWIP_LOCAL_HOSTNAME) - 1);
+    CHECK(ret == -1);
+
+    // happy flow with the default name
+    ret = gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
+    CHECK(ret == 0);
+    CHECK(strcmp(hostname, CONFIG_LWIP_LOCAL_HOSTNAME) == 0);
+
+    // happy flow with the netif name
+    esp_netif_t *esp_netif = create_test_netif(test_netif_name, 1);
+    REQUIRE(esp_netif != NULL);
+    CHECK(esp_netif_set_hostname(esp_netif, test_netif_name) == ESP_OK);
+    ret = gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
+    CHECK(ret == 0);
+    CHECK(strcmp(hostname, test_netif_name) == 0);
+    esp_netif_destroy(esp_netif);
+}
 
 extern "C" void app_main(void)
 {