diff --git a/codegen/generated!.gotpl b/codegen/generated!.gotpl
index ca9e754929e..7c8afe436ea 100644
--- a/codegen/generated!.gotpl
+++ b/codegen/generated!.gotpl
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ type DirectiveRoot struct {
 type ComplexityRoot struct {
 {{ range $object := .Objects }}
 	{{ if not $object.IsReserved -}}
-		{{ $object.Name|toCamel }} struct {
+		{{ $object.Name|go }} struct {
 		{{ range $field := $object.Fields -}}
 			{{ if not $field.IsReserved -}}
 				{{ $field.GoFieldName }} {{ $field.ComplexitySignature }}
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func (e *executableSchema) Complexity(typeName, field string, childComplexity in
 			{{ range $field := $object.Fields }}
 				{{ if not $field.IsReserved }}
 					case "{{$object.Name}}.{{$field.GoFieldName}}":
-						if e.complexity.{{$object.Name|toCamel}}.{{$field.GoFieldName}} == nil {
+						if e.complexity.{{$object.Name|go}}.{{$field.GoFieldName}} == nil {
 							break
 						}
 						{{ if $field.Args }}
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func (e *executableSchema) Complexity(typeName, field string, childComplexity in
 								return 0, false
 							}
 						{{ end }}
-						return e.complexity.{{$object.Name|toCamel}}.{{$field.GoFieldName}}(childComplexity{{if $field.Args}}, {{$field.ComplexityArgs}} {{end}}), true
+						return e.complexity.{{$object.Name|go}}.{{$field.GoFieldName}}(childComplexity{{if $field.Args}}, {{$field.ComplexityArgs}} {{end}}), true
 				{{ end }}
 			{{ end }}
 		{{ end }}
diff --git a/codegen/templates/templates.go b/codegen/templates/templates.go
index 8522824e5c9..5f0fda9d646 100644
--- a/codegen/templates/templates.go
+++ b/codegen/templates/templates.go
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ func Funcs() template.FuncMap {
 		"lcFirst":       lcFirst,
 		"quote":         strconv.Quote,
 		"rawQuote":      rawQuote,
-		"toCamel":       ToCamel,
 		"dump":          Dump,
 		"ref":           ref,
 		"ts":            TypeIdentifier,
@@ -228,41 +227,106 @@ func Call(p *types.Func) string {
 	return pkg + p.Name()
 }
 
-func ToCamel(s string) string {
-	if s == "_" {
-		return "_"
-	}
-	buffer := make([]rune, 0, len(s))
-	upper := true
-	lastWasUpper := false
-
-	for _, c := range s {
-		if isDelimiter(c) {
-			upper = true
-			continue
-		}
-		if !lastWasUpper && unicode.IsUpper(c) {
-			upper = true
+func ToGo(name string) string {
+	runes := make([]rune, 0, len(name))
+
+	wordWalker(name, func(info *wordInfo) {
+		word := info.Word
+		if info.MatchCommonInitial {
+			word = strings.ToUpper(word)
+		} else if !info.HasCommonInitial {
+			word = ucFirst(strings.ToLower(word))
 		}
+		runes = append(runes, []rune(word)...)
+	})
 
-		if upper {
-			buffer = append(buffer, unicode.ToUpper(c))
-		} else {
-			buffer = append(buffer, unicode.ToLower(c))
+	return string(runes)
+}
+
+func ToGoPrivate(name string) string {
+	runes := make([]rune, 0, len(name))
+
+	first := true
+	wordWalker(name, func(info *wordInfo) {
+		word := info.Word
+		if first {
+			word = strings.ToLower(info.Word)
+			first = false
+		} else if info.MatchCommonInitial {
+			word = strings.ToUpper(word)
+		} else if !info.HasCommonInitial {
+			word = ucFirst(strings.ToLower(word))
 		}
-		upper = false
-		lastWasUpper = unicode.IsUpper(c)
-	}
+		runes = append(runes, []rune(word)...)
+	})
 
-	return string(buffer)
+	return sanitizeKeywords(string(runes))
 }
 
-func ToGo(name string) string {
-	return lintName(ToCamel(name))
+type wordInfo struct {
+	Word               string
+	MatchCommonInitial bool
+	HasCommonInitial   bool
 }
 
-func ToGoPrivate(name string) string {
-	return lintName(sanitizeKeywords(lcFirst(ToCamel(name))))
+// This function is based on the following code.
+// https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/06c8688daad7faa9da5a0c2f163a3d14aac986ca/lint.go#L679
+func wordWalker(str string, f func(*wordInfo)) {
+	runes := []rune(str)
+	w, i := 0, 0 // index of start of word, scan
+	hasCommonInitial := false
+	for i+1 <= len(runes) {
+		eow := false // whether we hit the end of a word
+		if i+1 == len(runes) {
+			eow = true
+		} else if isDelimiter(runes[i+1]) {
+			// underscore; shift the remainder forward over any run of underscores
+			eow = true
+			n := 1
+			for i+n+1 < len(runes) && isDelimiter(runes[i+n+1]) {
+				n++
+			}
+
+			// Leave at most one underscore if the underscore is between two digits
+			if i+n+1 < len(runes) && unicode.IsDigit(runes[i]) && unicode.IsDigit(runes[i+n+1]) {
+				n--
+			}
+
+			copy(runes[i+1:], runes[i+n+1:])
+			runes = runes[:len(runes)-n]
+		} else if unicode.IsLower(runes[i]) && !unicode.IsLower(runes[i+1]) {
+			// lower->non-lower
+			eow = true
+		}
+		i++
+
+		// [w,i) is a word.
+		word := string(runes[w:i])
+		if !eow && commonInitialisms[word] && !unicode.IsLower(runes[i]) {
+			// through
+			// split IDFoo → ID, Foo
+			// but URLs → URLs
+		} else if !eow {
+			if commonInitialisms[word] {
+				hasCommonInitial = true
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+
+		matchCommonInitial := false
+		if commonInitialisms[strings.ToUpper(word)] {
+			hasCommonInitial = true
+			matchCommonInitial = true
+		}
+
+		f(&wordInfo{
+			Word:               word,
+			MatchCommonInitial: matchCommonInitial,
+			HasCommonInitial:   hasCommonInitial,
+		})
+		hasCommonInitial = false
+		w = i
+	}
 }
 
 var keywords = []string{
@@ -304,74 +368,6 @@ func sanitizeKeywords(name string) string {
 	return name
 }
 
-// copy from https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/06c8688daad7faa9da5a0c2f163a3d14aac986ca/lint.go#L679
-func lintName(name string) string {
-	// Fast path for simple cases: "_" and all lowercase.
-	if name == "_" {
-		return name
-	}
-	allLower := true
-	for _, r := range name {
-		if !unicode.IsLower(r) {
-			allLower = false
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if allLower {
-		return name
-	}
-
-	// Split camelCase at any lower->upper transition, and split on underscores.
-	// Check each word for common initialisms.
-	runes := []rune(name)
-	w, i := 0, 0 // index of start of word, scan
-	for i+1 <= len(runes) {
-		eow := false // whether we hit the end of a word
-		if i+1 == len(runes) {
-			eow = true
-		} else if runes[i+1] == '_' {
-			// underscore; shift the remainder forward over any run of underscores
-			eow = true
-			n := 1
-			for i+n+1 < len(runes) && runes[i+n+1] == '_' {
-				n++
-			}
-
-			// Leave at most one underscore if the underscore is between two digits
-			if i+n+1 < len(runes) && unicode.IsDigit(runes[i]) && unicode.IsDigit(runes[i+n+1]) {
-				n--
-			}
-
-			copy(runes[i+1:], runes[i+n+1:])
-			runes = runes[:len(runes)-n]
-		} else if unicode.IsLower(runes[i]) && !unicode.IsLower(runes[i+1]) {
-			// lower->non-lower
-			eow = true
-		}
-		i++
-		if !eow {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		// [w,i) is a word.
-		word := string(runes[w:i])
-		if u := strings.ToUpper(word); commonInitialisms[u] {
-			// Keep consistent case, which is lowercase only at the start.
-			if w == 0 && unicode.IsLower(runes[w]) {
-				u = strings.ToLower(u)
-			}
-			// All the common initialisms are ASCII,
-			// so we can replace the bytes exactly.
-			copy(runes[w:], []rune(u))
-		} else if w > 0 && strings.ToLower(word) == word {
-			// already all lowercase, and not the first word, so uppercase the first character.
-			runes[w] = unicode.ToUpper(runes[w])
-		}
-		w = i
-	}
-	return string(runes)
-}
-
 // 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.
diff --git a/codegen/templates/templates_test.go b/codegen/templates/templates_test.go
index 31f518b4bcc..cea36a3018f 100644
--- a/codegen/templates/templates_test.go
+++ b/codegen/templates/templates_test.go
@@ -6,12 +6,87 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
-func TestToUpper(t *testing.T) {
-	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToCamel("TO_CAMEL"))
-	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToCamel("to_camel"))
-	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToCamel("toCamel"))
-	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToCamel("ToCamel"))
-	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToCamel("to-camel"))
+func TestToGo(t *testing.T) {
+	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToGo("TO_CAMEL"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToGo("to_camel"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToGo("toCamel"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToGo("ToCamel"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ToCamel", ToGo("to-camel"))
+
+	require.Equal(t, "RelatedURLs", ToGo("RelatedURLs"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ImageIDs", ToGo("ImageIDs"))
+	require.Equal(t, "FooID", ToGo("FooID"))
+	require.Equal(t, "IDFoo", ToGo("IDFoo"))
+	require.Equal(t, "FooASCII", ToGo("FooASCII"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ASCIIFoo", ToGo("ASCIIFoo"))
+	require.Equal(t, "FooUTF8", ToGo("FooUTF8"))
+	require.Equal(t, "UTF8Foo", ToGo("UTF8Foo"))
+	require.Equal(t, "JSONEncoding", ToGo("JSONEncoding"))
+
+	require.Equal(t, "A", ToGo("A"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ID", ToGo("ID"))
+	require.Equal(t, "ID", ToGo("id"))
+	require.Equal(t, "", ToGo(""))
+
+	require.Equal(t, "RelatedUrls", ToGo("RelatedUrls"))
+}
+
+func TestToGoPrivate(t *testing.T) {
+	require.Equal(t, "toCamel", ToGoPrivate("TO_CAMEL"))
+	require.Equal(t, "toCamel", ToGoPrivate("to_camel"))
+	require.Equal(t, "toCamel", ToGoPrivate("toCamel"))
+	require.Equal(t, "toCamel", ToGoPrivate("ToCamel"))
+	require.Equal(t, "toCamel", ToGoPrivate("to-camel"))
+
+	require.Equal(t, "relatedURLs", ToGoPrivate("RelatedURLs"))
+	require.Equal(t, "imageIDs", ToGoPrivate("ImageIDs"))
+	require.Equal(t, "fooID", ToGoPrivate("FooID"))
+	require.Equal(t, "idFoo", ToGoPrivate("IDFoo"))
+	require.Equal(t, "fooASCII", ToGoPrivate("FooASCII"))
+	require.Equal(t, "asciiFoo", ToGoPrivate("ASCIIFoo"))
+	require.Equal(t, "fooUTF8", ToGoPrivate("FooUTF8"))
+	require.Equal(t, "utf8Foo", ToGoPrivate("UTF8Foo"))
+	require.Equal(t, "jsonEncoding", ToGoPrivate("JSONEncoding"))
+
+	require.Equal(t, "rangeArg", ToGoPrivate("Range"))
+
+	require.Equal(t, "a", ToGoPrivate("A"))
+	require.Equal(t, "id", ToGoPrivate("ID"))
+	require.Equal(t, "id", ToGoPrivate("id"))
+	require.Equal(t, "", ToGoPrivate(""))
+}
+
+func Test_wordWalker(t *testing.T) {
+
+	helper := func(str string) []*wordInfo {
+		resultList := []*wordInfo{}
+		wordWalker(str, func(info *wordInfo) {
+			resultList = append(resultList, info)
+		})
+		return resultList
+	}
+
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "TO"}, {Word: "CAMEL"}}, helper("TO_CAMEL"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "to"}, {Word: "camel"}}, helper("to_camel"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "to"}, {Word: "Camel"}}, helper("toCamel"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "To"}, {Word: "Camel"}}, helper("ToCamel"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "to"}, {Word: "camel"}}, helper("to-camel"))
+
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "Related"}, {Word: "URLs", HasCommonInitial: true}}, helper("RelatedURLs"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "Image"}, {Word: "IDs", HasCommonInitial: true}}, helper("ImageIDs"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "Foo"}, {Word: "ID", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}}, helper("FooID"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "ID", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}, {Word: "Foo"}}, helper("IDFoo"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "Foo"}, {Word: "ASCII", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}}, helper("FooASCII"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "ASCII", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}, {Word: "Foo"}}, helper("ASCIIFoo"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "Foo"}, {Word: "UTF8", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}}, helper("FooUTF8"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "UTF8", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}, {Word: "Foo"}}, helper("UTF8Foo"))
+
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "A"}}, helper("A"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "ID", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}}, helper("ID"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "id", HasCommonInitial: true, MatchCommonInitial: true}}, helper("id"))
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{}, helper(""))
+
+	require.Equal(t, []*wordInfo{{Word: "Related"}, {Word: "Urls"}}, helper("RelatedUrls"))
 }
 
 func TestCenter(t *testing.T) {