diff --git a/codegen/config/config.go b/codegen/config/config.go
index 923442862c1..b1b3a5cca3e 100644
--- a/codegen/config/config.go
+++ b/codegen/config/config.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	Models                        TypeMap                    `yaml:"models,omitempty"`
 	StructTag                     string                     `yaml:"struct_tag,omitempty"`
 	Directives                    map[string]DirectiveConfig `yaml:"directives,omitempty"`
+	GoInitialisms                 GoInitialismsConfig        `yaml:"go_initialisms,omitempty"`
 	OmitSliceElementPointers      bool                       `yaml:"omit_slice_element_pointers,omitempty"`
 	OmitGetters                   bool                       `yaml:"omit_getters,omitempty"`
 	OmitComplexity                bool                       `yaml:"omit_complexity,omitempty"`
@@ -201,6 +202,9 @@ func CompleteConfig(config *Config) error {
 
 		config.Sources = append(config.Sources, &ast.Source{Name: filename, Input: string(schemaRaw)})
 	}
+
+	config.GoInitialisms.setInitialisms()
+
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/codegen/config/initialisms.go b/codegen/config/initialisms.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5c169c89004
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codegen/config/initialisms.go
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+package config
+
+import "strings"
+
+// commonInitialisms is a set of common initialisms.
+// Only add entries that are highly unlikely to be non-initialisms.
+// For instance, "ID" is fine (Freudian code is rare), but "AND" is not.
+var commonInitialisms = map[string]bool{
+	"ACL":   true,
+	"API":   true,
+	"ASCII": true,
+	"CPU":   true,
+	"CSS":   true,
+	"CSV":   true,
+	"DNS":   true,
+	"EOF":   true,
+	"GUID":  true,
+	"HTML":  true,
+	"HTTP":  true,
+	"HTTPS": true,
+	"ICMP":  true,
+	"ID":    true,
+	"IP":    true,
+	"JSON":  true,
+	"KVK":   true,
+	"LHS":   true,
+	"PDF":   true,
+	"PGP":   true,
+	"QPS":   true,
+	"QR":    true,
+	"RAM":   true,
+	"RHS":   true,
+	"RPC":   true,
+	"SLA":   true,
+	"SMTP":  true,
+	"SQL":   true,
+	"SSH":   true,
+	"SVG":   true,
+	"TCP":   true,
+	"TLS":   true,
+	"TTL":   true,
+	"UDP":   true,
+	"UI":    true,
+	"UID":   true,
+	"URI":   true,
+	"URL":   true,
+	"UTF8":  true,
+	"UUID":  true,
+	"VM":    true,
+	"XML":   true,
+	"XMPP":  true,
+	"XSRF":  true,
+	"XSS":   true,
+}
+
+// GetInitialisms returns the initialisms to capitalize in Go names. If unchanged, default initialisms will be returned
+var GetInitialisms = func() map[string]bool {
+	return commonInitialisms
+}
+
+// GoInitialismsConfig allows to modify the default behavior of naming Go methods, types and properties
+type GoInitialismsConfig struct {
+	// If true, the Initialisms won't get appended to the default ones but replace them
+	ReplaceDefaults bool `yaml:"replace_defaults"`
+	// Custom initialisms to be added or to replace the default ones
+	Initialisms []string `yaml:"initialisms"`
+}
+
+// setInitialisms adjustes GetInitialisms based on its settings.
+func (i GoInitialismsConfig) setInitialisms() {
+	toUse := i.determineGoInitialisms()
+	GetInitialisms = func() map[string]bool {
+		return toUse
+	}
+}
+
+// determineGoInitialisms returns the Go initialims to be used, based on its settings.
+func (i GoInitialismsConfig) determineGoInitialisms() (initialismsToUse map[string]bool) {
+	if i.ReplaceDefaults {
+		initialismsToUse = make(map[string]bool, len(i.Initialisms))
+		for _, initialism := range i.Initialisms {
+			initialismsToUse[strings.ToUpper(initialism)] = true
+		}
+	} else {
+		initialismsToUse = make(map[string]bool, len(commonInitialisms)+len(i.Initialisms))
+		for initialism, value := range commonInitialisms {
+			initialismsToUse[strings.ToUpper(initialism)] = value
+		}
+		for _, initialism := range i.Initialisms {
+			initialismsToUse[strings.ToUpper(initialism)] = true
+		}
+	}
+	return initialismsToUse
+}
diff --git a/codegen/config/initialisms_test.go b/codegen/config/initialisms_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5bea561a3a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codegen/config/initialisms_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package config
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestGoInitialismsConfig(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("load go initialisms config", func(t *testing.T) {
+		config, err := LoadConfig("testdata/cfg/goInitialisms.yml")
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.True(t, config.GoInitialisms.ReplaceDefaults)
+		require.Len(t, config.GoInitialisms.Initialisms, 2)
+	})
+	t.Run("empty initialism config doesn't change anything", func(t *testing.T) {
+		tt := GoInitialismsConfig{}
+		result := tt.determineGoInitialisms()
+		assert.Equal(t, len(commonInitialisms), len(result))
+	})
+	t.Run("initialism config appends if desired", func(t *testing.T) {
+		tt := GoInitialismsConfig{ReplaceDefaults: false, Initialisms: []string{"ASDF"}}
+		result := tt.determineGoInitialisms()
+		assert.Equal(t, len(commonInitialisms)+1, len(result))
+		assert.True(t, result["ASDF"])
+	})
+	t.Run("initialism config replaces if desired", func(t *testing.T) {
+		tt := GoInitialismsConfig{ReplaceDefaults: true, Initialisms: []string{"ASDF"}}
+		result := tt.determineGoInitialisms()
+		assert.Equal(t, 1, len(result))
+		assert.True(t, result["ASDF"])
+	})
+	t.Run("initialism config uppercases the initialsms", func(t *testing.T) {
+		tt := GoInitialismsConfig{Initialisms: []string{"asdf"}}
+		result := tt.determineGoInitialisms()
+		assert.True(t, result["ASDF"])
+	})
+}
diff --git a/codegen/config/testdata/cfg/goInitialisms.yml b/codegen/config/testdata/cfg/goInitialisms.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..662bbd7974c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codegen/config/testdata/cfg/goInitialisms.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+go_initialisms:
+  replace_defaults: true
+  initialisms:
+    - 'CC'
+    - 'BCC'
diff --git a/codegen/templates/templates.go b/codegen/templates/templates.go
index 6d536d3c17e..332498f878f 100644
--- a/codegen/templates/templates.go
+++ b/codegen/templates/templates.go
@@ -465,14 +465,15 @@ func wordWalker(str string, f func(*wordInfo)) {
 		}
 		i++
 
+		initialisms := config.GetInitialisms()
 		// [w,i) is a word.
 		word := string(runes[w:i])
-		if !eow && commonInitialisms[word] && !unicode.IsLower(runes[i]) {
+		if !eow && initialisms[word] && !unicode.IsLower(runes[i]) {
 			// through
 			// split IDFoo → ID, Foo
 			// but URLs → URLs
 		} else if !eow {
-			if commonInitialisms[word] {
+			if initialisms[word] {
 				hasCommonInitial = true
 			}
 			continue
@@ -480,7 +481,7 @@ func wordWalker(str string, f func(*wordInfo)) {
 
 		matchCommonInitial := false
 		upperWord := strings.ToUpper(word)
-		if commonInitialisms[upperWord] {
+		if initialisms[upperWord] {
 			// If the uppercase word (string(runes[w:i]) is "ID" or "IP"
 			// AND
 			// the word is the first two characters of the str
@@ -553,57 +554,6 @@ func sanitizeKeywords(name string) string {
 	return name
 }
 
-// commonInitialisms is a set of common initialisms.
-// Only add entries that are highly unlikely to be non-initialisms.
-// For instance, "ID" is fine (Freudian code is rare), but "AND" is not.
-var commonInitialisms = map[string]bool{
-	"ACL":   true,
-	"API":   true,
-	"ASCII": true,
-	"CPU":   true,
-	"CSS":   true,
-	"CSV":   true,
-	"DNS":   true,
-	"EOF":   true,
-	"GUID":  true,
-	"HTML":  true,
-	"HTTP":  true,
-	"HTTPS": true,
-	"ICMP":  true,
-	"ID":    true,
-	"IP":    true,
-	"JSON":  true,
-	"KVK":   true,
-	"LHS":   true,
-	"PDF":   true,
-	"PGP":   true,
-	"QPS":   true,
-	"QR":    true,
-	"RAM":   true,
-	"RHS":   true,
-	"RPC":   true,
-	"SLA":   true,
-	"SMTP":  true,
-	"SQL":   true,
-	"SSH":   true,
-	"SVG":   true,
-	"TCP":   true,
-	"TLS":   true,
-	"TTL":   true,
-	"UDP":   true,
-	"UI":    true,
-	"UID":   true,
-	"URI":   true,
-	"URL":   true,
-	"UTF8":  true,
-	"UUID":  true,
-	"VM":    true,
-	"XML":   true,
-	"XMPP":  true,
-	"XSRF":  true,
-	"XSS":   true,
-}
-
 func rawQuote(s string) string {
 	return "`" + strings.ReplaceAll(s, "`", "`+\"`\"+`") + "`"
 }
diff --git a/docs/config.yml b/docs/config.yml
index 3b63f08286b..e6a1e73e296 100644
--- a/docs/config.yml
+++ b/docs/config.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ menu:
 security:
   funcs:
     getenv:
-    - '^HUGO_'
-    - 'VERSIONS'
-    - 'CURRENT_VERSION'
+      - '^HUGO_'
+      - 'VERSIONS'
+      - 'CURRENT_VERSION'
+
+go_initialisms:
+  replace_defaults: false
+  initialisms:
+    - 'CC'
+    - 'BCC'
diff --git a/docs/content/config.md b/docs/content/config.md
index aa8c8a3ba3d..493da22cd0c 100644
--- a/docs/content/config.md
+++ b/docs/content/config.md
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ resolver:
 # Optional: set to skip running `go mod tidy` when generating server code
 # skip_mod_tidy: true
 
+# Optional: set to modify the initialisms regarded for Go names
+# go_initialisms:
+#   replace_defaults: false # if true, the default initialisms will get dropped in favor of the new ones instead of being added
+#   initialisms: # List of initialisms to for Go names
+#     - 'CC'
+#     - 'BCC'
+
 # gqlgen will search for any type names in the schema in these go packages
 # if they match it will use them, otherwise it will generate them.
 # autobind: