diff --git a/types/uuid/index.d.ts b/types/uuid/index.d.ts
index cc16cc830d..a979b989fd 100644
--- a/types/uuid/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/uuid/index.d.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
-// Type definitions for uuid 3.0
-// Project: https://github.com/defunctzombie/node-uuid
+// Type definitions for uuid 3.4
+// Project: https://github.com/kelektiv/node-uuid
 // Definitions by: Oliver Hoffmann <https://github.com/iamolivinius/>
 //                 Felipe Ochoa <https://github.com/felipeochoa/>
+//                 Chris Barth <https://github.com/cjbarth>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 // TypeScript Version: 2.2
 
+// The version number has been artificially set to 3.4, instead of 3.0,
+// because of the existing uuid-js npm types package being at 3.3.28,
+// meaning that `npm install @types/uuid` was installing the typings for uuid-js, not this
+
 import { v1, v4 } from './interfaces';
 
 interface UuidStatic {
diff --git a/types/uuid/interfaces.d.ts b/types/uuid/interfaces.d.ts
index 65ff0d4819..28a13fc3fa 100644
--- a/types/uuid/interfaces.d.ts
+++ b/types/uuid/interfaces.d.ts
@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ export type v1 = v1String & v1Buffer;
 export type v4String = (options?: V4Options) => string;
 export type v4Buffer = <T extends OutputBuffer>(options: V4Options | null | undefined, buffer: T, offset?: number) => T;
 export type v4 = v4String & v4Buffer;
+
+export type v5String = (name: string | number[], namespace: string | number[]) => string;
+export type v5Buffer = <T extends OutputBuffer>(name: string | number[], namespace: string | number[], buffer: T, offset?: number) => T;
+export type v5 = v5String & v5Buffer;
diff --git a/types/uuid/tsconfig.json b/types/uuid/tsconfig.json
index 688d9add4b..52caac62b6 100644
--- a/types/uuid/tsconfig.json
+++ b/types/uuid/tsconfig.json
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
         "index.d.ts",
         "v1.d.ts",
         "v4.d.ts",
+        "v5.d.ts",
         "interfaces.d.ts",
         "uuid-tests.ts"
     ]
diff --git a/types/uuid/uuid-tests.ts b/types/uuid/uuid-tests.ts
index 73dedec6c5..ec69275db9 100644
--- a/types/uuid/uuid-tests.ts
+++ b/types/uuid/uuid-tests.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import uuid = require('uuid');
 import v1 = require('uuid/v1');
 import v4 = require('uuid/v4');
+import v5 = require('uuid/v5');
 
 let uuidv1: string = uuid.v1();
 
@@ -41,3 +42,9 @@ bufferv4 = uuid(undefined, bufferv4);
 bufferv4 = uuid(null, bufferv4, 16);
 bufferv4 = v4(null, bufferv4);
 bufferv4 = v4(undefined, bufferv4, 16);
+
+const MY_NAMESPACE = v4();
+const a: string = v5('hello', MY_NAMESPACE);
+const b: string = v5('world', MY_NAMESPACE);
+const c: Buffer = v5('world', MY_NAMESPACE, new Buffer(16));
+const d: number[] = v5('world', MY_NAMESPACE, [], 0);
diff --git a/types/uuid/v5.d.ts b/types/uuid/v5.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..67b8c8d051
--- /dev/null
+++ b/types/uuid/v5.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import { v5 } from './interfaces';
+
+declare const v5: v5;
+
+export = v5;