diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/src/rest.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/src/rest.js
index 4f0817b857de..da85c7e5ad95 100644
--- a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/src/rest.js
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/src/rest.js
@@ -228,10 +228,20 @@ export default function convertFunctionRest(path) {
   const { node, scope } = path;
   if (!hasRest(node)) return false;
 
-  const rest = node.params.pop().argument;
+  let rest = node.params.pop().argument;
 
   const argsId = t.identifier("arguments");
 
+  if (t.isPattern(rest)) {
+    const pattern = rest;
+    rest = scope.generateUidIdentifier("ref");
+
+    const declar = t.variableDeclaration("let", [
+      t.variableDeclarator(pattern, rest),
+    ]);
+    node.body.body.unshift(declar);
+  }
+
   // check and optimise for extremely common cases
   const state = {
     references: [],
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/exec.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/exec.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dcb3e1a319e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/exec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+function foo(...{ length }) {
+  return length;
+}
+
+expect(foo(1, 2, 3)).toEqual(3);
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/input.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/input.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a19bb5e1f2e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/input.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+function foo(...[a]) {}
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/output.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/output.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba8bf6bb3f5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-parameters/test/fixtures/parameters/rest-patterns/output.js
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+function foo() {
+  for (var _len = arguments.length, _ref = new Array(_len), _key = 0; _key < _len; _key++) {
+    _ref[_key] = arguments[_key];
+  }
+
+  var a = _ref[0];
+}