diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/AbstractKafkaHeaderMapper.java b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/AbstractKafkaHeaderMapper.java
index 6404e29f83..7e028bf8cf 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/AbstractKafkaHeaderMapper.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/AbstractKafkaHeaderMapper.java
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 import org.springframework.core.log.LogAccessor;
 import org.springframework.messaging.MessageHeaders;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.ConcurrentLruCache;
 import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.PatternMatchUtils;
 
@@ -65,8 +66,14 @@ public abstract class AbstractKafkaHeaderMapper implements KafkaHeaderMapper {
 
 	private final List<HeaderMatcher> matchers = new ArrayList<>();
 
+	private final ConcurrentLruCache<String, Boolean> matcherResultCache =
+			new ConcurrentLruCache<>(1000, this::doesMatchInternal);
+
 	private final List<HeaderMatcher> multiValueHeaderMatchers = new ArrayList<>();
 
+	private final ConcurrentLruCache<String, Boolean> multiValueMatcherResultCache =
+			new ConcurrentLruCache<>(1000, this::doesMatchMultiValueHeaderInternal);
+
 	private final Map<String, Boolean> rawMappedHeaders = new HashMap<>();
 
 	{
@@ -240,13 +247,17 @@ protected boolean matchesForInbound(String header) {
 	}
 
 	private boolean doesMatch(String header) {
+		return this.matcherResultCache.get(header);
+	}
+
+	private boolean doesMatchInternal(String header) {
 		for (HeaderMatcher matcher : this.matchers) {
 			if (matcher.matchHeader(header)) {
 				return !matcher.isNegated();
 			}
 		}
 		this.logger.debug(() -> MessageFormat.format("headerName=[{0}] WILL NOT be mapped; matched no patterns",
-				header));
+													header));
 		return false;
 	}
 
@@ -266,12 +277,20 @@ protected Object headerValueToAddOut(String key, Object value) {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Check whether the header value should be mapped to multiple values.
+	 * Determine whether the given header name should be mapped to multiple values.
+	 * This method first checks if the mapping result is already cached.
+	 * If a cached result exists, it is returned immediately.
+	 * If not, {@code doesMatchInternal(headerName)} is called to compute the result,
+	 * which is then cached and returned.
 	 * @param headerName the header name.
 	 * @return True for multiple values at the same key.
 	 * @since 4.0
 	 */
 	protected boolean doesMatchMultiValueHeader(String headerName) {
+		return this.multiValueMatcherResultCache.get(headerName);
+	}
+
+	private boolean doesMatchMultiValueHeaderInternal(String headerName) {
 		for (HeaderMatcher headerMatcher : this.multiValueHeaderMatchers) {
 			if (headerMatcher.matchHeader(headerName)) {
 				return true;
diff --git a/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/DefaultKafkaHeaderMapperTests.java b/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/DefaultKafkaHeaderMapperTests.java
index 1151e6cd3d..5765a9be4a 100644
--- a/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/DefaultKafkaHeaderMapperTests.java
+++ b/spring-kafka/src/test/java/org/springframework/kafka/support/DefaultKafkaHeaderMapperTests.java
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 import org.apache.kafka.common.header.internals.RecordHeaders;
 import org.assertj.core.api.InstanceOfAssertFactories;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;
 
 import org.springframework.core.log.LogAccessor;
 import org.springframework.kafka.retrytopic.RetryTopicHeaders;
@@ -413,6 +415,102 @@ void multiValueHeaderToTest() {
 				.containsExactly(multiValueWildCardHeader2Value1, multiValueWildCardHeader2Value2);
 	}
 
+	@ParameterizedTest
+	@ValueSource(ints = {500, 1000, 2000})
+	void hugeNumberOfSingleValueHeaderToTest(int numberOfSingleValueHeaderCount) {
+		// GIVEN
+		Headers rawHeaders = new RecordHeaders();
+
+		String multiValueHeader1 = "test-multi-value1";
+		byte[] multiValueHeader1Value1 = { 0, 0, 0, 0 };
+		byte[] multiValueHeader1Value2 = { 0, 0, 0, 1 };
+
+		rawHeaders.add(multiValueHeader1, multiValueHeader1Value1);
+		rawHeaders.add(multiValueHeader1, multiValueHeader1Value2);
+
+		byte[] deliveryAttemptHeaderValue = { 0, 0, 0, 1 };
+		byte[] originalOffsetHeaderValue = { 0, 0, 0, 2 };
+		byte[] defaultHeaderAttemptsValues = { 0, 0, 0, 5 };
+
+		rawHeaders.add(KafkaHeaders.DELIVERY_ATTEMPT, deliveryAttemptHeaderValue);
+		rawHeaders.add(KafkaHeaders.ORIGINAL_OFFSET, originalOffsetHeaderValue);
+		rawHeaders.add(RetryTopicHeaders.DEFAULT_HEADER_ATTEMPTS, defaultHeaderAttemptsValues);
+
+		byte[] singleValueHeaderValue = { 0, 0, 0, 6 };
+		for (int i = 0; i < numberOfSingleValueHeaderCount; i++) {
+			String singleValueHeader = "test-single-value" + i;
+			rawHeaders.add(singleValueHeader, singleValueHeaderValue);
+		}
+
+		DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper mapper = new DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper();
+		mapper.setMultiValueHeaderPatterns(multiValueHeader1);
+
+		// WHEN
+		Map<String, Object> mappedHeaders = new HashMap<>();
+		mapper.toHeaders(rawHeaders, mappedHeaders);
+
+		// THEN
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(KafkaHeaders.DELIVERY_ATTEMPT)).isEqualTo(1);
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(KafkaHeaders.ORIGINAL_OFFSET)).isEqualTo(originalOffsetHeaderValue);
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(RetryTopicHeaders.DEFAULT_HEADER_ATTEMPTS)).isEqualTo(defaultHeaderAttemptsValues);
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < numberOfSingleValueHeaderCount; i++) {
+			String singleValueHeader = "test-single-value" + i;
+			assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(singleValueHeader)).isEqualTo(singleValueHeaderValue);
+		}
+
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders)
+				.extractingByKey(multiValueHeader1, InstanceOfAssertFactories.list(byte[].class))
+				.containsExactly(multiValueHeader1Value1, multiValueHeader1Value2);
+	}
+
+	@ParameterizedTest
+	@ValueSource(ints = {500, 1000, 2000})
+	void hugeNumberOfMultiValueHeaderToTest(int numberOfMultiValueHeaderCount) {
+		// GIVEN
+		DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper mapper = new DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper();
+		Headers rawHeaders = new RecordHeaders();
+
+		byte[] multiValueHeader1Value1 = { 0, 0, 0, 0 };
+		byte[] multiValueHeader1Value2 = { 0, 0, 0, 1 };
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < numberOfMultiValueHeaderCount; i++) {
+			String multiValueHeader = "test-multi-value" + i;
+			mapper.setMultiValueHeaderPatterns(multiValueHeader);
+			rawHeaders.add(multiValueHeader, multiValueHeader1Value1);
+			rawHeaders.add(multiValueHeader, multiValueHeader1Value2);
+		}
+
+		byte[] deliveryAttemptHeaderValue = { 0, 0, 0, 1 };
+		byte[] originalOffsetHeaderValue = { 0, 0, 0, 2 };
+		byte[] defaultHeaderAttemptsValues = { 0, 0, 0, 5 };
+
+		rawHeaders.add(KafkaHeaders.DELIVERY_ATTEMPT, deliveryAttemptHeaderValue);
+		rawHeaders.add(KafkaHeaders.ORIGINAL_OFFSET, originalOffsetHeaderValue);
+		rawHeaders.add(RetryTopicHeaders.DEFAULT_HEADER_ATTEMPTS, defaultHeaderAttemptsValues);
+
+		String singleValueHeader = "test-single-value";
+		byte[] singleValueHeaderValue = { 0, 0, 0, 6 };
+		rawHeaders.add(singleValueHeader, singleValueHeaderValue);
+
+		// WHEN
+		Map<String, Object> mappedHeaders = new HashMap<>();
+		mapper.toHeaders(rawHeaders, mappedHeaders);
+
+		// THEN
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(KafkaHeaders.DELIVERY_ATTEMPT)).isEqualTo(1);
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(KafkaHeaders.ORIGINAL_OFFSET)).isEqualTo(originalOffsetHeaderValue);
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(RetryTopicHeaders.DEFAULT_HEADER_ATTEMPTS)).isEqualTo(defaultHeaderAttemptsValues);
+		assertThat(mappedHeaders.get(singleValueHeader)).isEqualTo(singleValueHeaderValue);
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < numberOfMultiValueHeaderCount; i++) {
+			String multiValueHeader = "test-multi-value" + i;
+			assertThat(mappedHeaders)
+					.extractingByKey(multiValueHeader, InstanceOfAssertFactories.list(byte[].class))
+					.containsExactly(multiValueHeader1Value1, multiValueHeader1Value2);
+		}
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	void multiValueHeaderFromTest() {
 		// GIVEN