diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
index de33b7d4e3371c..f4fd402ad35439 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
@@ -1602,6 +1602,7 @@ Reshaping
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.pivot_table()`` where ``dropna=True`` would not drop all-NaN columns when the columns was a ``category`` dtype (:issue:`15193`)
 - Bug in ``pd.melt()`` where passing a tuple value for ``value_vars`` caused a ``TypeError`` (:issue:`15348`)
 - Bug in ``pd.pivot_table()`` where no error was raised when values argument was not in the columns (:issue:`14938`)
+- Bug in ``pd.crosstab()`` where passing two ``Series`` with the same name raised a ``KeyError`` (:issue:`13279`)
 - Bug in ``pd.concat()`` in which concatting with an empty dataframe with ``join='inner'`` was being improperly handled (:issue:`15328`)
 - Bug with ``sort=True`` in ``DataFrame.join`` and ``pd.merge`` when joining on indexes (:issue:`15582`)
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.nsmallest`` and ``DataFrame.nlargest`` where identical values resulted in duplicated rows (:issue:`15297`)