diff --git a/app/validators/project_path_validator.rb b/app/validators/project_path_validator.rb
index aec0d0ce44ed68af3937705921ff0cc17a381fd9..36279daa743224b1a75e80abdabb6126b3efbf28 100644
--- a/app/validators/project_path_validator.rb
+++ b/app/validators/project_path_validator.rb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class ProjectPathValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
   #  'tree' as project name and 'deploy_keys' as route.
   #
   RESERVED = (NamespaceValidator::RESERVED -
-              %w[dashboard help ci admin search notes services] +
+              %w[dashboard help ci admin search notes services assets profile public] +
               %w[tree commits wikis new edit create update logs_tree
                  preview blob blame raw files create_dir find_file]).freeze
 
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/dz-whitelist-some-project-names.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/dz-whitelist-some-project-names.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92383646f627a908348a60bcc60c541b731dfeac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/dz-whitelist-some-project-names.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: 'Whitelist next project names: assets, profile, public'
+merge_request: 8470
+author:
diff --git a/db/post_migrate/20161221153951_rename_reserved_project_names.rb b/db/post_migrate/20161221153951_rename_reserved_project_names.rb
index 7f7c2424a5cad6bda842748903432003024039fd..282837be1fa3d7bc74934500e4edb55e70fc36ae 100644
--- a/db/post_migrate/20161221153951_rename_reserved_project_names.rb
+++ b/db/post_migrate/20161221153951_rename_reserved_project_names.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ class RenameReservedProjectNames < ActiveRecord::Migration
 
   KNOWN_PATHS = %w(.well-known
                    all
-                   assets
                    blame
                    blob
                    commits
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ class RenameReservedProjectNames < ActiveRecord::Migration
                    create_dir
                    edit
                    files
-                   files
                    find_file
                    groups
                    hooks
@@ -26,11 +24,8 @@ class RenameReservedProjectNames < ActiveRecord::Migration
                    logs_tree
                    merge_requests
                    new
-                   new
                    preview
-                   profile
                    projects
-                   public
                    raw
                    repository
                    robots.txt