diff --git a/src/lexers/javascript-lexer.js b/src/lexers/javascript-lexer.js
index b0532cd3..7772cfe1 100644
--- a/src/lexers/javascript-lexer.js
+++ b/src/lexers/javascript-lexer.js
@@ -53,6 +53,17 @@ export default class JavascriptLexer extends BaseLexer {
     return keys
   }
 
+  setKeyPrefixes(keys) {
+    if (this.keyPrefix) {
+      return keys.map((key) => ({
+        ...key,
+        keyPrefix: this.keyPrefix,
+      }))
+    }
+
+    return keys
+  }
+
   extract(content, filename = '__default.js') {
     const keys = []
 
@@ -120,8 +131,25 @@ export default class JavascriptLexer extends BaseLexer {
       node.arguments.length
     ) {
       const { text, elements } = node.arguments[0]
+
+      // useTranslation
       if (text) {
         this.defaultNamespace = text
+        const optionsArgument = node.arguments[1]
+
+        if (
+          optionsArgument &&
+          optionsArgument.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ObjectLiteralExpression
+        ) {
+          const node = optionsArgument.properties.find(
+            (p) => p.name.escapedText === 'keyPrefix'
+          )
+          if (node != null) {
+            const keyPrefixValue = node.initializer.text
+            this.keyPrefix = keyPrefixValue
+          }
+        }
+        // withTranslation
       } else if (elements && elements.length) {
         this.defaultNamespace = elements[0].text
       }
diff --git a/src/lexers/jsx-lexer.js b/src/lexers/jsx-lexer.js
index 7af299c4..5a31e761 100644
--- a/src/lexers/jsx-lexer.js
+++ b/src/lexers/jsx-lexer.js
@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ export default class JsxLexer extends JavascriptLexer {
     )
     parseTree(sourceFile)
 
-    return this.setNamespaces(keys)
+    const keysWithNamespace = this.setNamespaces(keys)
+    const keysWithPrefixes = this.setKeyPrefixes(keysWithNamespace)
+
+    return keysWithPrefixes
   }
 
   jsxExtractor(node, sourceText) {
diff --git a/src/transform.js b/src/transform.js
index fa965728..1e160add 100644
--- a/src/transform.js
+++ b/src/transform.js
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ export default class i18nTransform extends Transform {
 
     for (const entry of entries) {
       let key = entry.key
+
+      if (entry.keyPrefix) {
+        key = entry.keyPrefix + this.options.keySeparator + key
+      }
+
       const parts = key.split(this.options.namespaceSeparator)
 
       // make sure we're not pulling a 'namespace' out of a default value
diff --git a/test/gulp/gulp.test.js b/test/gulp/gulp.test.js
index e143442a..0477f0a9 100644
--- a/test/gulp/gulp.test.js
+++ b/test/gulp/gulp.test.js
@@ -51,6 +51,18 @@ describe('gulp plugin', function () {
       assert.strictEqual(error.code, 'ENOENT')
     }
 
+    const enKeyPrefix = await fs.readJson(
+      path.resolve(__dirname, './locales/en/key-prefix.json')
+    )
+
+    try {
+      await fs.readJson(
+        path.resolve(__dirname, './locales/en/key-prefix_old.json')
+      )
+    } catch (error) {
+      assert.strictEqual(error.code, 'ENOENT')
+    }
+
     const enTranslation = await fs.readJson(
       path.resolve(__dirname, './locales/en/translation.json')
     )
@@ -116,6 +128,12 @@ describe('gulp plugin', function () {
       'test-1': '',
       'test-2': '',
     })
+    assert.deepEqual(enKeyPrefix, {
+      'test-prefix': {
+        foo: '',
+        bar: '',
+      },
+    })
     assert.deepEqual(enTranslation, {
       fifth: 'bar',
       fifth_male: '',
diff --git a/test/parser.test.js b/test/parser.test.js
index 4c577fc0..3b7b3877 100644
--- a/test/parser.test.js
+++ b/test/parser.test.js
@@ -382,6 +382,35 @@ describe('parser', () => {
     i18nextParser.end(fakeFile)
   })
 
+  it('applies useTranslation keyPrefix globally', (done) => {
+    let result
+    const i18nextParser = new i18nTransform()
+    const fakeFile = new Vinyl({
+      contents: fs.readFileSync(
+        path.resolve(__dirname, 'templating/keyPrefix-hook.jsx')
+      ),
+      path: 'file.jsx',
+    })
+    const expected = {
+      'test-prefix': {
+        foo: '',
+        bar: '',
+      },
+    }
+
+    i18nextParser.on('data', (file) => {
+      if (file.relative.endsWith(path.normalize('en/key-prefix.json'))) {
+        result = JSON.parse(file.contents)
+      }
+    })
+    i18nextParser.on('end', () => {
+      assert.deepEqual(result, expected)
+      done()
+    })
+
+    i18nextParser.end(fakeFile)
+  })
+
   it('handles escaped single and double quotes', (done) => {
     let result
     const i18nextParser = new i18nTransform()
diff --git a/test/templating/keyPrefix-hook.jsx b/test/templating/keyPrefix-hook.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd2d3584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/templating/keyPrefix-hook.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import React from 'react'
+import { useTranslation, Trans } from 'react-i18next'
+
+// This will have test-namespace even though it comes before useTranslation during parsing
+const Component = () => {
+  return <Trans i18nKey="foo"></Trans>
+}
+
+function TestComponent() {
+  const { t } = useTranslation('key-prefix', { keyPrefix: 'test-prefix' })
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Component />
+      <h1>{t('bar')}</h1>
+    </>
+  )
+}
+
+export default TestComponent