diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.test.ts
index a13471c66b0..91368341aba 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.test.ts
@@ -81,4 +81,19 @@ describe('dataFrameView', () => {
       value: 1,
     });
   });
+
+  it('Can handle fields with number name', () => {
+    const view = new DataFrameView<MySpecialObject>(
+      new MutableDataFrame({
+        fields: [
+          { name: '1', type: FieldType.string, values: ['a'] },
+          { name: '2', type: FieldType.string, values: ['b'] },
+        ],
+      })
+    );
+
+    const obj = view.get(0) as any;
+    expect(obj['1']).toEqual('a');
+    expect(obj['2']).toEqual('b');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.ts
index b96055813c9..8e88813c1cb 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/DataFrameView.ts
@@ -32,10 +32,12 @@ export class DataFrameView<T = any> extends FunctionalVector<T> {
         });
       }
 
-      Object.defineProperty(obj, i, {
-        enumerable: false, // Don't enumerate array index
-        get: getter,
-      });
+      if (!(obj as any).hasOwnProperty(i.toString())) {
+        Object.defineProperty(obj, i, {
+          enumerable: false, // Don't enumerate array index
+          get: getter,
+        });
+      }
     }
 
     this.obj = obj;
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.test.ts b/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.test.ts
index 0873a4b3586..29bdff2e750 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.test.ts
@@ -151,4 +151,26 @@ describe('Rows to fields', () => {
     expect(result.fields[0].name).toEqual('Stockholm');
     expect(result.fields[0].values.get(0)).toEqual(20);
   });
+
+  it('Can handle number fields as name field', () => {
+    const input = toDataFrame({
+      fields: [
+        { name: 'SensorID', type: FieldType.number, values: [10, 20, 30] },
+        { name: 'Value', type: FieldType.number, values: [1, 2, 3] },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    const result = rowsToFields(
+      {
+        mappings: [
+          { fieldName: 'SensorID', handlerKey: 'field.name' },
+          { fieldName: 'Value', handlerKey: 'field.value' },
+        ],
+      },
+      input
+    );
+
+    expect(result.fields[0].name).toEqual('10');
+    expect(result.fields[0].values.get(0)).toEqual(1);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.ts b/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.ts
index fc5bbd21478..b72b9516752 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/rowsToFields/rowsToFields.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ export function rowsToFields(options: RowToFieldsTransformOptions, data: DataFra
     const labels = getLabelsFromRow(data, index, mappingResult);
 
     const field: Field = {
-      name: name,
+      name: `${name}`,
       type: valueField.type,
       values: new ArrayVector([value]),
       config: config,