diff --git a/pyxform/tests/example_xls/survey_no_name.xlsx b/pyxform/tests/example_xls/survey_no_name.xlsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..76097a850
Binary files /dev/null and b/pyxform/tests/example_xls/survey_no_name.xlsx differ
diff --git a/pyxform/tests/test_expected_output/survey_no_name.xml b/pyxform/tests/test_expected_output/survey_no_name.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b37d087e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyxform/tests/test_expected_output/survey_no_name.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<h:html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:jr="http://openrosa.org/javarosa" xmlns:odk="http://www.opendatakit.org/xforms" xmlns:orx="http://openrosa.org/xforms" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
+  <h:head>
+    <h:title>data</h:title>
+    <model>
+      <instance>
+        <data id="data">
+          <state/>
+          <meta>
+            <instanceID/>
+          </meta>
+        </data>
+      </instance>
+      <bind nodeset="/data/state" type="string"/>
+      <bind jr:preload="uid" nodeset="/data/meta/instanceID" readonly="true()" type="string"/>
+    </model>
+  </h:head>
+  <h:body>
+    <input ref="/data/state">
+      <label>The State</label>
+    </input>
+  </h:body>
+</h:html>
diff --git a/pyxform/tests/xls2json_tests.py b/pyxform/tests/xls2json_tests.py
index de6e1114c..a81bd1a2d 100644
--- a/pyxform/tests/xls2json_tests.py
+++ b/pyxform/tests/xls2json_tests.py
@@ -242,3 +242,13 @@ def test_a_unicode_csv_works(self):
         utf_csv_path = utils.path_to_text_fixture("utf_csv.csv")
         dict_value = csv_to_dict(utf_csv_path)
         self.assertTrue("\\ud83c" in json.dumps(dict_value))
+
+
+class DefaultToSurveyTest(TestCase):
+    def test_default_sheet_name_to_survey(self):
+        xls_path = utils.path_to_text_fixture("survey_no_name.xlsx")
+        dict_value = xls_to_dict(xls_path)
+        print (json.dumps(dict_value))
+        self.assertTrue("survey" in json.dumps(dict_value))
+        self.assertTrue("state" in json.dumps(dict_value))
+        self.assertTrue("The State" in json.dumps(dict_value))
diff --git a/pyxform/tests/xlsform_spec_test.py b/pyxform/tests/xlsform_spec_test.py
index c87b98516..80b7dc7a0 100644
--- a/pyxform/tests/xlsform_spec_test.py
+++ b/pyxform/tests/xlsform_spec_test.py
@@ -171,5 +171,27 @@ def runTest(self):
         os.remove(self.output_path)
 
 
+class DefaultSurveySheetTest(XFormTestCase):
+    maxDiff = None
+
+    def runTest(self):
+        filename = "survey_no_name.xlsx"
+        self.get_file_path(filename)
+        expected_output_path = os.path.join(
+            DIR, "test_expected_output", self.root_filename + ".xml"
+        )
+
+        warnings = []
+        json_survey = pyxform.xls2json.parse_file_to_json(
+            self.path_to_excel_file, warnings=warnings
+        )
+        survey = pyxform.create_survey_element_from_dict(json_survey)
+        survey.print_xform_to_file(self.output_path, warnings=warnings)
+
+        with codecs.open(expected_output_path, "rb", encoding="utf-8") as expected_file:
+            with codecs.open(self.output_path, "rb", encoding="utf-8") as actual_file:
+                self.assertXFormEqual(expected_file.read(), actual_file.read())
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/pyxform/xls2json_backends.py b/pyxform/xls2json_backends.py
index c57200902..6f4b7a543 100644
--- a/pyxform/xls2json_backends.py
+++ b/pyxform/xls2json_backends.py
@@ -209,7 +209,12 @@ def slugify(s):
     for sheet in workbook.sheets():
         # Do not process sheets that have nothing to do with XLSForm.
         if sheet.name not in constants.SUPPORTED_SHEET_NAMES:
-            continue
+            if len(workbook.sheets()) == 1:
+                result[constants.SURVEY], result[
+                    "%s_header" % constants.SURVEY
+                ] = xls_to_dict_normal_sheet(sheet)
+            else:
+                continue
         if sheet.name == constants.CASCADING_CHOICES:
             result[sheet.name] = _xls_to_dict_cascade_sheet(sheet)
         else: