diff --git a/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt b/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
index 3668c5dc41..db8bd38e9c 100644
--- a/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ details on how ``staticfiles`` finds your files.
     Now we *might* be able to get away with putting our static files directly
     in ``my_app/static/`` (rather than creating another ``my_app``
     subdirectory), but it would actually be a bad idea. Django will use the
-    last static file it finds whose name matches, and if you had a static file
+    first static file it finds whose name matches, and if you had a static file
     with the same name in a *different* application, Django would be unable to
     distinguish between them. We need to be able to point Django at the right
     one, and the easiest way to ensure this is by *namespacing* them. That is,
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index 897af275a0..902eefa86a 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -2564,7 +2564,9 @@ various locations.
 The default will find files stored in the :setting:`STATICFILES_DIRS` setting
 (using ``django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder``) and in a
 ``static`` subdirectory of each app (using
-``django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder``)
+``django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder``). If multiple
+files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be
+used.
 
 One finder is disabled by default:
 ``django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder``. If added to