diff --git a/doc.go b/doc.go
index 3a807b4..b71a491 100644
--- a/doc.go
+++ b/doc.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 // operations — Load, Store, LoadOrStore, LoadAndDelete, Delete, and
 // Range — with identical semantics and the same concurrency
 // guarantees. Four convenience methods are added on top: Len, Map,
-// Keys, and Items. The underlying sync.Map is not exported; use the
+// Keys, and Values. The underlying sync.Map is not exported; use the
 // typed methods exclusively.
 //
 // # When to use SyncMap
diff --git a/syncmap.go b/syncmap.go
index 8f27cdd..18a4045 100644
--- a/syncmap.go
+++ b/syncmap.go
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func (m *SyncMap[K, V]) Keys() []K {
 	return keys
 }
 
-// Items returns a slice of all values present in the map at the
+// Values returns a slice of all values present in the map at the
 // moment of the call. It runs in O(n) time.
 //
 // The result is a point-in-time approximation. Concurrent stores and
@@ -140,11 +140,11 @@ func (m *SyncMap[K, V]) Keys() []K {
 // removed, or to omit values that were added during traversal. The
 // order of values is undefined, and does not correspond to the order
 // returned by Keys.
-func (m *SyncMap[K, V]) Items() []V {
-	var items []V
+func (m *SyncMap[K, V]) Values() []V {
+	var values []V
 	m.syncMap.Range(func(key, value any) bool {
-		items = append(items, value.(V))
+		values = append(values, value.(V))
 		return true
 	})
-	return items
+	return values
 }
diff --git a/syncmap_test.go b/syncmap_test.go
index 73f042a..c787200 100644
--- a/syncmap_test.go
+++ b/syncmap_test.go
@@ -357,14 +357,14 @@ func TestKeys(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
-func TestItems(t *testing.T) {
+func TestValues(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
 	t.Run("empty_is_empty", func(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Parallel()
 		m := &syncmap.SyncMap[string, int]{}
-		items := m.Items()
-		assert.Empty(t, items)
+		values := m.Values()
+		assert.Empty(t, values)
 	})
 
 	t.Run("matches", func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -373,9 +373,9 @@ func TestItems(t *testing.T) {
 		m.Store("a", 1)
 		m.Store("b", 2)
 		m.Store("c", 3)
-		items := m.Items()
-		sort.Ints(items)
-		assert.Equal(t, []int{1, 2, 3}, items)
+		values := m.Values()
+		sort.Ints(values)
+		assert.Equal(t, []int{1, 2, 3}, values)
 	})
 
 	t.Run("length_equals_len", func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ func TestItems(t *testing.T) {
 		m := &syncmap.SyncMap[string, int]{}
 		m.Store("x", 10)
 		m.Store("y", 20)
-		assert.Equal(t, m.Len(), len(m.Items()))
+		assert.Equal(t, m.Len(), len(m.Values()))
 	})
 }