diff --git a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
index 096833d1ebb355..f612e79dca1818 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
@@ -2145,6 +2145,17 @@ def test_atexit(self):
         self.assertTrue(b'ZeroDivisionError' in err)
 
 
+class ModuleTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_names(self):
+        for name in ('ReferenceType', 'ProxyType', 'CallableProxyType',
+                     'WeakMethod', 'WeakSet', 'WeakKeyDictionary', 'WeakValueDictionary'):
+            obj = getattr(weakref, name)
+            if name != 'WeakSet':
+                self.assertEqual(obj.__module__, 'weakref')
+            self.assertEqual(obj.__name__, name)
+            self.assertEqual(obj.__qualname__, name)
+
+
 libreftest = """ Doctest for examples in the library reference: weakref.rst
 
 >>> from test.support import gc_collect
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-06-11-13-32-17.gh-issue-79512.A1KTDr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-06-11-13-32-17.gh-issue-79512.A1KTDr.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5393fb52e93c30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-06-11-13-32-17.gh-issue-79512.A1KTDr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fixed names and ``__module__`` value of :mod:`weakref` classes
+:class:`~weakref.ReferenceType`, :class:`~weakref.ProxyType`,
+:class:`~weakref.CallableProxyType`. It makes them pickleable.
diff --git a/Objects/weakrefobject.c b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
index bb56c7dbdb8322..cfb8ba322ae37a 100644
--- a/Objects/weakrefobject.c
+++ b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static PyMethodDef weakref_methods[] = {
 PyTypeObject
 _PyWeakref_RefType = {
     PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type, 0)
-    "weakref",
+    "weakref.ReferenceType",
     sizeof(PyWeakReference),
     0,
     weakref_dealloc,            /*tp_dealloc*/
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ static PyMappingMethods proxy_as_mapping = {
 PyTypeObject
 _PyWeakref_ProxyType = {
     PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type, 0)
-    "weakproxy",
+    "weakref.ProxyType",
     sizeof(PyWeakReference),
     0,
     /* methods */
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ _PyWeakref_ProxyType = {
 PyTypeObject
 _PyWeakref_CallableProxyType = {
     PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type, 0)
-    "weakcallableproxy",
+    "weakref.CallableProxyType",
     sizeof(PyWeakReference),
     0,
     /* methods */