diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
index c1e1f3358..aeec2dba4 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ class TokenVectorEncoder(object):
 
 
 class NeuralTagger(object):
-    name = 'nn_tagger'
+    name = 'tagger'
     def __init__(self, vocab, model=True):
         self.vocab = vocab
         self.model = model