diff --git a/core/translate/select.rs b/core/translate/select.rs
index 7c024cb616..9e79430693 100644
--- a/core/translate/select.rs
+++ b/core/translate/select.rs
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ fn prepare_one_select_plan(
                 result_columns.push(ResultSetColumn {
                     // these result_columns work as placeholders for the values, so the expr doesn't matter
                     expr: ast::Expr::Literal(ast::Literal::Numeric(i.to_string())),
-                    alias: None,
+                    alias: Some(format!("column{}", i + 1)),
                     contains_aggregates: false,
                 });
             }
diff --git a/testing/select.test b/testing/select.test
index b7ccc544df..be31c41683 100755
--- a/testing/select.test
+++ b/testing/select.test
@@ -1244,6 +1244,11 @@ do_execsql_test_on_specific_db {:memory:} affinity-conversion-2 {
   SELECT * FROM t WHERE a == 2;
 } {2}
 
+ # https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/issues/3950
+do_execsql_test select-values-column-name {
+  SELECT column1 FROM (VALUES(123));
+} {123}
+
 # Test suite for SQLite affinity conversion in WHERE clauses
 
 # ============================================