diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py b/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py
index 4a3ddd5db94e5..5359941d41fde 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
 
 class HPUAttentionBackend(AttentionBackend):
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_name() -> str:
+        return "HPU_ATTN"
+
     @staticmethod
     def get_impl_cls() -> Type["HPUAttentionImpl"]:
         return HPUAttentionImpl