diff --git a/fe/src/main/java/com/cloudera/impala/analysis/ToSqlUtils.java b/fe/src/main/java/com/cloudera/impala/analysis/ToSqlUtils.java
index 938fe2eb6..3dcdd1e93 100644
--- a/fe/src/main/java/com/cloudera/impala/analysis/ToSqlUtils.java
+++ b/fe/src/main/java/com/cloudera/impala/analysis/ToSqlUtils.java
@@ -77,7 +77,19 @@ public class ToSqlUtils {
       // Ignore exception and just quote the identifier to be safe.
     }
     boolean isImpalaKeyword = SqlScanner.isKeyword(ident.toUpperCase());
-    if (hiveNeedsQuotes || isImpalaKeyword) return "`" + ident + "`";
+    // Impala's scanner recognizes the ".123" portion of "db.123_tbl" as a decimal,
+    // so while the quoting is not necessary for the given identifier itself, the quotes
+    // are needed if this identifier will be preceded by a ".".
+    boolean startsWithNumber = false;
+    if (!hiveNeedsQuotes && !isImpalaKeyword) {
+      try {
+        Integer.parseInt(ident.substring(0, 1));
+        startsWithNumber = true;
+      } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+        // Ignore exception, identifier does not start with number.
+      }
+    }
+    if (hiveNeedsQuotes || isImpalaKeyword || startsWithNumber) return "`" + ident + "`";
     return ident;
   }
 
diff --git a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/compute-stats.test b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/compute-stats.test
index c148e14dd..cb9824d37 100644
--- a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/compute-stats.test
+++ b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/compute-stats.test
@@ -908,3 +908,23 @@ show table stats compute_stats_db.empty_partitioned
 ---- TYPES
 STRING, BIGINT, BIGINT, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING
 ====
+---- QUERY
+# IMPALA-1614 Verify that COMPUTE STATS works on a table whose name starts with numbers.
+create table compute_stats_db.`123_table` (i int, 1p int) partitioned by (2j int);
+alter table compute_stats_db.`123_table` add partition (2j=1);
+====
+---- QUERY
+compute stats compute_stats_db.`123_table`
+---- RESULTS
+'Updated 1 partition(s) and 2 column(s).'
+---- TYPES
+STRING
+====
+---- QUERY
+show table stats compute_stats_db.`123_table`
+---- RESULTS
+'1',0,0,'0B','NOT CACHED','NOT CACHED','TEXT','false'
+'Total',0,0,'0B','0B','','',''
+---- TYPES
+STRING, BIGINT, BIGINT, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING
+====