diff --git a/bsup/loader/loader_test.go b/bsup/loader/loader_test.go
index 9a4f9e0d7..896b0c731 100644
--- a/bsup/loader/loader_test.go
+++ b/bsup/loader/loader_test.go
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ type port=uint16
 `
 
 func newFrameLoader(t *testing.T, sctx *super.Context, s string) *loader.FrameLoader {
+	l, err := loader.NewFrameLoader(sctx, newFrame(t, sctx, s))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	return l
+}
+
+func newFrame(t *testing.T, sctx *super.Context, s string) *bsup.ColFrame {
 	var buf bytes.Buffer
 	w := bsup.NewColumnWriter(sio.NopCloser(&buf))
 	r := supio.NewReader(sctx, strings.NewReader(s))
@@ -47,9 +53,7 @@ func newFrameLoader(t *testing.T, sctx *super.Context, s string) *loader.FrameLo
 	require.NoError(t, w.Close())
 	frame, err := bsup.NewSeekable(sctx, bytes.NewReader(buf.Bytes())).Next()
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-	l, err := loader.NewFrameLoader(sctx, frame.(*bsup.ColFrame))
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	return l
+	return frame.(*bsup.ColFrame)
 }
 
 func load(l *loader.FrameLoader, projection field.Projection) string {
@@ -124,6 +128,23 @@ func TestLoaderProjections(t *testing.T) {
 	wg.Wait()
 }
 
+func TestLoaderNamedConcurrentProjections(t *testing.T) {
+	// Concurrent projections that change a named type's inner type race to
+	// bind its name in a context where it isn't bound yet.
+	frame := newFrame(t, super.NewContext(), "type foo={a:int64,b:int64}\n{a:1,b:2}::foo\n")
+	for range 1000 {
+		l, err := loader.NewFrameLoader(super.NewContext(), frame)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		var wg sync.WaitGroup
+		for path, want := range map[string]string{"a": "{a:1}", "b": "{b:2}"} {
+			wg.Go(func() {
+				assert.Contains(t, load(l, projection(path)), want)
+			})
+		}
+		wg.Wait()
+	}
+}
+
 func TestLoaderDynamic(t *testing.T) {
 	// Values of different types make a dynamic root, whose values are
 	// loaded together or separately.
diff --git a/bsup/loader/named.go b/bsup/loader/named.go
index 403ad1dff..f1eb7fb2d 100644
--- a/bsup/loader/named.go
+++ b/bsup/loader/named.go
@@ -17,15 +17,8 @@ func (n *Named) project(loader *FrameLoader, projection field.Projection) vector
 	vec := n.Values.project(loader, projection)
 	// Try to preserve the named type if possible but if the projection changes
 	// the underlying type, then just return the inner vector.
-	inner := vec.Type()
-	named := loader.sctx.LookupByName(n.Name)
-	if named == nil {
-		var err error
-		named, err = loader.sctx.LookupTypeNamed(n.Name, vec.Type())
-		if err != nil {
-			panic(err)
-		}
-	} else if named.Type != inner {
+	named, err := loader.sctx.LookupTypeNamed(n.Name, vec.Type())
+	if err != nil {
 		return vec
 	}
 	return vector.NewNamed(named, vec)
diff --git a/context.go b/context.go
index c652d5ca4..7a55bd3a1 100644
--- a/context.go
+++ b/context.go
@@ -375,25 +375,14 @@ func (c *Context) LookupTypeNamed(name string, inner Type) (*TypeNamed, error) {
 	if !utf8.ValidString(name) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("bad type name %q: invalid UTF-8", name)
 	}
-	if err := CheckTypeName(name); err != nil {
+	named, patch, err := c.DeclareTypeNamed(name)
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	c.mu.Lock()
-	if c.named == nil {
-		c.named = make(map[string]*TypeNamed)
-	}
-	if typ, ok := c.named[name]; ok {
-		c.mu.Unlock()
-		typ.Wait()
-		if typ.Type != inner {
+	if patch < 0 {
+		if named.Type != inner {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("type %q redefined", name)
 		}
-		return typ, nil
-
-	}
-	c.mu.Unlock()
-	named, patch, _ := c.DeclareTypeNamed(name)
-	if patch < 0 {
 		return named, nil
 	}
 	if err := c.BindTypeNamed(patch, named, inner); err != nil {