diff --git a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
index 34098434eb3..dd0653fc04a 100644
--- a/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
+++ b/src/corelib/Qt6CoreMacros.cmake
@@ -1422,12 +1422,7 @@ function(qt6_extract_metatypes target)
         message(FATAL_ERROR "Metatype generation requires either the use of AUTOMOC or a manual list of generated json files")
     endif()
 
-    if (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND NOT is_multi_config)
-        string(TOLOWER ${target}_${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} target_lowercase)
-    else()
-        string(TOLOWER ${target} target_lowercase)
-    endif()
-
+    string(TOLOWER ${target} target_lowercase)
     set(metatypes_file_name "qt6${target_lowercase}_metatypes.json")
     set(metatypes_file "${target_binary_dir}/meta_types/${metatypes_file_name}")
     set(metatypes_file_gen "${target_binary_dir}/meta_types/${metatypes_file_name}.gen")
diff --git a/tests/auto/cmake/test_qt_extract_metatypes/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/auto/cmake/test_qt_extract_metatypes/CMakeLists.txt
index 26944b11921..100e890dc8a 100644
--- a/tests/auto/cmake/test_qt_extract_metatypes/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/auto/cmake/test_qt_extract_metatypes/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,11 +13,7 @@ get_filename_component(test_project_source_dir "${test_project_source_dir}" REAL
 get_filename_component(test_project_build_dir "${test_project_build_dir}" REALPATH)
 
 get_cmake_property(is_multi_config GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG)
-if (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND NOT is_multi_config)
-    string(TOLOWER "qt6metatypetest_${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" metatypes_file_basename)
-else()
-    string(TOLOWER "qt6metatypetest" metatypes_file_basename)
-endif()
+string(TOLOWER "qt6metatypetest" metatypes_file_basename)
 set(meta_types_file
     "${test_project_build_dir}/meta_types/${metatypes_file_basename}_metatypes.json")