diff --git a/docs/user/api/v3.rst b/docs/user/api/v3.rst
index 39f82a07e00..942d891ef72 100644
--- a/docs/user/api/v3.rst
+++ b/docs/user/api/v3.rst
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ Projects list
             }]
         }
 
+    :query string name: return projects with matching name
+    :query string slug: return projects with matching slug
     :query string language: language code as ``en``, ``es``, ``ru``, etc.
     :query string programming_language: programming language code as ``py``, ``js``, etc.
 
diff --git a/readthedocs/api/v3/filters.py b/readthedocs/api/v3/filters.py
index 1f210b486ec..d54a8116f9b 100644
--- a/readthedocs/api/v3/filters.py
+++ b/readthedocs/api/v3/filters.py
@@ -8,11 +8,20 @@
 
 class ProjectFilter(filters.FilterSet):
 
+    # TODO this is copying the patterns from other filter sets, where the fields
+    # are all ``icontains`` lookups by default. We discussed reversing this
+    # pattern in the future though, see:
+    # https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/9862
+    name = filters.CharFilter(lookup_expr="icontains")
+    slug = filters.CharFilter(lookup_expr="icontains")
+
     class Meta:
         model = Project
         fields = [
-            'language',
-            'programming_language',
+            "name",
+            "slug",
+            "language",
+            "programming_language",
         ]
 
 
diff --git a/readthedocs/api/v3/tests/responses/projects-list-empty.json b/readthedocs/api/v3/tests/responses/projects-list-empty.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a07f3f09fac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/readthedocs/api/v3/tests/responses/projects-list-empty.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "count": 0,
+    "next": null,
+    "previous": null,
+    "results": []
+}
diff --git a/readthedocs/api/v3/tests/test_projects.py b/readthedocs/api/v3/tests/test_projects.py
index 9bea87fc407..5c35ef5c0f6 100644
--- a/readthedocs/api/v3/tests/test_projects.py
+++ b/readthedocs/api/v3/tests/test_projects.py
@@ -23,6 +23,48 @@ def test_projects_list(self):
             self._get_response_dict('projects-list'),
         )
 
+    def test_projects_list_filter_full_hit(self):
+        self.client.credentials(HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=f"Token {self.token.key}")
+        response = self.client.get(
+            reverse("projects-list"),
+            data={
+                "name": self.project.name,
+            },
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        self.assertDictEqual(
+            response.json(),
+            self._get_response_dict("projects-list"),
+        )
+
+    def test_projects_list_filter_partial_hit(self):
+        self.client.credentials(HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=f"Token {self.token.key}")
+        response = self.client.get(
+            reverse("projects-list"),
+            data={
+                "name": self.project.name[0:3],
+            },
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        self.assertDictEqual(
+            response.json(),
+            self._get_response_dict("projects-list"),
+        )
+
+    def test_projects_list_filter_miss(self):
+        self.client.credentials(HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=f"Token {self.token.key}")
+        response = self.client.get(
+            reverse("projects-list"),
+            data={
+                "name": "63dadecd5323d789cafe09f01cda85fd",
+            },
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        self.assertDictEqual(
+            response.json(),
+            self._get_response_dict("projects-list-empty"),
+        )
+
     def test_own_projects_detail(self):
         self.client.credentials(HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=f'Token {self.token.key}')
         response = self.client.get(