diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1c708ef48..444aec0ea 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2419,6 +2419,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools 0.13.0",
  "log",
  "num-traits",
+ "once_cell",
  "petgraph 0.8.0",
  "pp-rs",
  "ron",
diff --git a/naga/Cargo.toml b/naga/Cargo.toml
index bc2e746c2..8795aa0d6 100644
--- a/naga/Cargo.toml
+++ b/naga/Cargo.toml
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ indexmap.workspace = true
 log = "0.4"
 # `half` requires 0.2.16 for `FromBytes` and `ToBytes`.
 num-traits = { version = "0.2.16", default-features = false }
+once_cell = { workspace = true, features = ["alloc", "race"] }
 strum = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 spirv = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 thiserror.workspace = true
diff --git a/naga/src/proc/namer.rs b/naga/src/proc/namer.rs
index 05678242f..74d28c488 100644
--- a/naga/src/proc/namer.rs
+++ b/naga/src/proc/namer.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 use alloc::{
     borrow::Cow,
+    boxed::Box,
     format,
     string::{String, ToString},
     vec::Vec,
 };
 use core::hash::{Hash, Hasher};
+
 use hashbrown::HashSet;
+use once_cell::race::OnceBox;
 
 use crate::{arena::Handle, FastHashMap, FastHashSet};
 
@@ -46,15 +49,13 @@ pub struct Namer {
     reserved_prefixes: Vec<&'static str>,
 }
 
-#[cfg(any(wgsl_out, glsl_out, msl_out, hlsl_out, test))]
 impl Default for Namer {
     fn default() -> Self {
-        use std::sync::LazyLock;
-        static DEFAULT_KEYWORDS: LazyLock<HashSet<&'static str>> = LazyLock::new(HashSet::default);
+        static DEFAULT_KEYWORDS: OnceBox<HashSet<&'static str>> = OnceBox::new();
 
         Self {
             unique: Default::default(),
-            keywords: &DEFAULT_KEYWORDS,
+            keywords: DEFAULT_KEYWORDS.get_or_init(|| Box::new(HashSet::default())),
             keywords_case_insensitive: Default::default(),
             reserved_prefixes: Default::default(),
         }