diff --git a/folly/Preprocessor.h b/folly/Preprocessor.h
index 86b6a35f9b954376396b7cfb567bdb2aac079377..c7e580d81d4d947405caec69ce8c95f833d9b027 100644
--- a/folly/Preprocessor.h
+++ b/folly/Preprocessor.h
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@
 #endif
 
 /**
- * Use FB_STRINGIZE(name) when you'd want to do what #name does inside
+ * Use FB_STRINGIZE(x) when you'd want to do what #x does inside
  * another macro expansion.
  */
-#define FB_STRINGIZE(name) #name
+#define FB_STRINGIZE(x) #x
 
 #endif // FOLLY_PREPROCESSOR_