diff --git a/src/wp-includes/taxonomy.php b/src/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
index ec398b44aa..6deb0030d4 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
@@ -1226,7 +1226,17 @@ class WP_Tax_Query {
 		switch ( $query['field'] ) {
 			case 'slug':
 			case 'name':
-				$terms = "'" . implode( "','", array_map( 'sanitize_title_for_query', $query['terms'] ) ) . "'";
+				foreach ( $query['terms'] as &$term ) {
+					/*
+					 * 0 is the $term_id parameter. We don't have a term ID yet, but it doesn't
+					 * matter because `sanitize_term_field()` ignores the $term_id param when the
+					 * context is 'db'.
+					 */
+					$term = "'" . sanitize_term_field( $query['field'], $term, 0, $query['taxonomy'], 'db' ) . "'";
+				}
+
+				$terms = implode( ",", $query['terms'] );
+
 				$terms = $wpdb->get_col( "
 					SELECT $wpdb->term_taxonomy.$resulting_field
 					FROM $wpdb->term_taxonomy
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/query/taxQuery.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/query/taxQuery.php
index eed12ac371..a9b7cf71f8 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/query/taxQuery.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/query/taxQuery.php
@@ -59,6 +59,36 @@ class Tests_Query_TaxQuery extends WP_UnitTestCase {
 		$this->assertEquals( array( $p1 ), $q->posts );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @ticket 27810
+	 */
+	public function test_field_name_should_work_for_names_with_spaces() {
+		register_taxonomy( 'wptests_tax', 'post' );
+
+		$t = $this->factory->term->create( array(
+			'taxonomy' => 'wptests_tax',
+			'slug' => 'foo',
+			'name' => 'Foo Bar',
+		) );
+		$p1 = $this->factory->post->create();
+		$p2 = $this->factory->post->create();
+
+		wp_set_object_terms( $p1, $t, 'wptests_tax' );
+
+		$q = new WP_Query( array(
+			'fields' => 'ids',
+			'tax_query' => array(
+				array(
+					'taxonomy' => 'wptests_tax',
+					'terms' => array( 'Foo Bar' ),
+					'field' => 'name',
+				),
+			),
+		) );
+
+		$this->assertEquals( array( $p1 ), $q->posts );
+	}
+
 	public function test_tax_query_single_query_single_term_field_term_taxonomy_id() {
 		$t = $this->factory->term->create( array(
 			'taxonomy' => 'category',