diff --git a/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroSchemaConverter.java b/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroSchemaConverter.java
index 782c009db4..7907ad0a52 100644
--- a/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroSchemaConverter.java
+++ b/parquet-avro/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/AvroSchemaConverter.java
@@ -351,11 +351,38 @@ private Type convertField(Schema.Field field, String schemaPath, IdentityHashMap
   }
 
   public Schema convert(MessageType parquetSchema) {
-    return convertFields(parquetSchema.getName(), parquetSchema.getFields(), new HashMap<>());
+    return withDisabledNameValidation(
+        () -> convertFields(parquetSchema.getName(), parquetSchema.getFields(), new HashMap<>()));
   }
 
   Schema convert(GroupType parquetSchema) {
-    return convertFields(parquetSchema.getName(), parquetSchema.getFields(), new HashMap<>());
+    return withDisabledNameValidation(
+        () -> convertFields(parquetSchema.getName(), parquetSchema.getFields(), new HashMap<>()));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Temporarily disables Avro name validation so that Parquet field names
+   * containing characters not allowed by Avro (e.g. hyphens) can be converted.
+   * The Parquet spec allows any UTF-8 string as a field name.
+   */
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  private static Schema withDisabledNameValidation(java.util.function.Supplier<Schema> supplier) {
+    ThreadLocal<Boolean> validateNames;
+    try {
+      java.lang.reflect.Field f = Schema.class.getDeclaredField("validateNames");
+      f.setAccessible(true);
+      validateNames = (ThreadLocal<Boolean>) f.get(null);
+    } catch (ReflectiveOperationException e) {
+      // If reflection fails, fall back to default behavior
+      return supplier.get();
+    }
+    Boolean prev = validateNames.get();
+    try {
+      validateNames.set(Boolean.FALSE);
+      return supplier.get();
+    } finally {
+      validateNames.set(prev);
+    }
   }
 
   private Schema convertFields(String name, List<Type> parquetFields, Map<String, Integer> names) {
diff --git a/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/TestAvroSchemaConverter.java b/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/TestAvroSchemaConverter.java
index 412e8f2957..a5231ce657 100644
--- a/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/TestAvroSchemaConverter.java
+++ b/parquet-avro/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/avro/TestAvroSchemaConverter.java
@@ -1073,6 +1073,18 @@ public void testDeeplyNestedNonRecursiveSchema() {
     Assert.assertEquals("Root schema name should be preserved", "Root", result.getName());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testHyphenatedColumnName() {
+    // PARQUET-3364: Parquet spec allows any UTF-8 string as a field name
+    MessageType parquetSchema = MessageTypeParser.parseMessageType(
+        "message test {\n  required binary Creation-Time (UTF8);\n  optional int32 my-count;\n}\n");
+    AvroSchemaConverter converter = new AvroSchemaConverter();
+    Schema avroSchema = converter.convert(parquetSchema);
+    Assert.assertNotNull("Schema with hyphenated field names should convert", avroSchema);
+    Assert.assertNotNull(avroSchema.getField("Creation-Time"));
+    Assert.assertNotNull(avroSchema.getField("my-count"));
+  }
+
   public static Schema optional(Schema original) {
     return Schema.createUnion(Lists.newArrayList(Schema.create(Schema.Type.NULL), original));
   }