diff --git a/cursor.py b/cursor.py
index 3e6a2b4..8fa33b5 100644
--- a/cursor.py
+++ b/cursor.py
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ RE_SQL_FIND_PARAM = re.compile(

 _ERR_NO_RESULT_TO_FETCH = "No result set to fetch from."

+NAMED_TUPLE_CACHE = weakref.WeakValueDictionary()
+

 class _ParamSubstitutor(object):
     """
@@ -1201,10 +1203,13 @@ class MySQLCursorNamedTuple(MySQLCursor):
         """
         row = self._connection.converter.row_to_python(rowdata, desc)
         if row:
-            # pylint: disable=W0201
-            self.named_tuple = namedtuple('Row', self.column_names)
-            # pylint: enable=W0201
-            return self.named_tuple(*row)
+            columns = tuple(self.column_names)
+            try:
+                named_tuple = NAMED_TUPLE_CACHE[columns]
+            except KeyError:
+                named_tuple = namedtuple('Row', columns)
+                NAMED_TUPLE_CACHE[columns] = named_tuple
+            return named_tuple(*row)

     def fetchone(self):
         """Returns next row of a query result set