diff --git a/cmd/abigen/main.go b/cmd/abigen/main.go
index 075e98930e67..83b6c5e4289f 100644
--- a/cmd/abigen/main.go
+++ b/cmd/abigen/main.go
@@ -154,9 +154,12 @@ func abigen(c *cli.Context) error {
 		types = append(types, kind)
 	} else {
 		// Generate the list of types to exclude from binding
-		exclude := make(map[string]bool)
-		for _, kind := range strings.Split(c.String(excFlag.Name), ",") {
-			exclude[strings.ToLower(kind)] = true
+		var exclude *nameFilter
+		if c.IsSet(excFlag.Name) {
+			var err error
+			if exclude, err = newNameFilter(strings.Split(c.String(excFlag.Name), ",")...); err != nil {
+				utils.Fatalf("Failed to parse excludes: %v", err)
+			}
 		}
 		var contracts map[string]*compiler.Contract
 
@@ -181,7 +184,11 @@ func abigen(c *cli.Context) error {
 		}
 		// Gather all non-excluded contract for binding
 		for name, contract := range contracts {
-			if exclude[strings.ToLower(name)] {
+			// fully qualified name is of the form <solFilePath>:<type>
+			nameParts := strings.Split(name, ":")
+			typeName := nameParts[len(nameParts)-1]
+			if exclude != nil && exclude.Matches(name) {
+				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "excluding: %v\n", name)
 				continue
 			}
 			abi, err := json.Marshal(contract.Info.AbiDefinition) // Flatten the compiler parse
@@ -191,15 +198,14 @@ func abigen(c *cli.Context) error {
 			abis = append(abis, string(abi))
 			bins = append(bins, contract.Code)
 			sigs = append(sigs, contract.Hashes)
-			nameParts := strings.Split(name, ":")
-			types = append(types, nameParts[len(nameParts)-1])
+			types = append(types, typeName)
 
 			// Derive the library placeholder which is a 34 character prefix of the
 			// hex encoding of the keccak256 hash of the fully qualified library name.
 			// Note that the fully qualified library name is the path of its source
 			// file and the library name separated by ":".
 			libPattern := crypto.Keccak256Hash([]byte(name)).String()[2:36] // the first 2 chars are 0x
-			libs[libPattern] = nameParts[len(nameParts)-1]
+			libs[libPattern] = typeName
 		}
 	}
 	// Extract all aliases from the flags
diff --git a/cmd/abigen/namefilter.go b/cmd/abigen/namefilter.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eea5c643c442
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/abigen/namefilter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+type nameFilter struct {
+	fulls map[string]bool // path/to/contract.sol:Type
+	files map[string]bool // path/to/contract.sol:*
+	types map[string]bool // *:Type
+}
+
+func newNameFilter(patterns ...string) (*nameFilter, error) {
+	f := &nameFilter{
+		fulls: make(map[string]bool),
+		files: make(map[string]bool),
+		types: make(map[string]bool),
+	}
+	for _, pattern := range patterns {
+		if err := f.add(pattern); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	return f, nil
+}
+
+func (f *nameFilter) add(pattern string) error {
+	ft := strings.Split(pattern, ":")
+	if len(ft) != 2 {
+		// filenames and types must not include ':' symbol
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid pattern: %s", pattern)
+	}
+
+	file, typ := ft[0], ft[1]
+	if file == "*" {
+		f.types[typ] = true
+		return nil
+	} else if typ == "*" {
+		f.files[file] = true
+		return nil
+	}
+	f.fulls[pattern] = true
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (f *nameFilter) Matches(name string) bool {
+	ft := strings.Split(name, ":")
+	if len(ft) != 2 {
+		// If contract names are always of the fully-qualified form
+		// <filePath>:<type>, then this case will never happen.
+		return false
+	}
+
+	file, typ := ft[0], ft[1]
+	// full paths > file paths > types
+	return f.fulls[name] || f.files[file] || f.types[typ]
+}
diff --git a/cmd/abigen/namefilter_test.go b/cmd/abigen/namefilter_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..42ba55be5eb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/abigen/namefilter_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestNameFilter(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := newNameFilter("Foo")
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	_, err = newNameFilter("too/many:colons:Foo")
+	require.Error(t, err)
+
+	f, err := newNameFilter("a/path:A", "*:B", "c/path:*")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	for _, tt := range []struct {
+		name  string
+		match bool
+	}{
+		{"a/path:A", true},
+		{"unknown/path:A", false},
+		{"a/path:X", false},
+		{"unknown/path:X", false},
+		{"any/path:B", true},
+		{"c/path:X", true},
+		{"c/path:foo:B", false},
+	} {
+		match := f.Matches(tt.name)
+		if tt.match {
+			assert.True(t, match, "expected match")
+		} else {
+			assert.False(t, match, "expected no match")
+		}
+	}
+}