diff --git a/src/wp-admin/nav-menus.php b/src/wp-admin/nav-menus.php
index 0dd34cf9e6..66590be119 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/nav-menus.php
+++ b/src/wp-admin/nav-menus.php
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ switch ( $action ) {
 }
 
 // Get all nav menus.
-$nav_menus = wp_get_nav_menus( array('orderby' => 'name') );
+$nav_menus = wp_get_nav_menus();
 $menu_count = count( $nav_menus );
 
 // Are we on the add new screen?
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/default-widgets.php b/src/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
index d54dbc732c..f4a6790711 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ class WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud extends WP_Widget {
 		$nav_menu = isset( $instance['nav_menu'] ) ? $instance['nav_menu'] : '';
 
 		// Get menus
-		$menus = wp_get_nav_menus( array( 'orderby' => 'name' ) );
+		$menus = wp_get_nav_menus();
 
 		// If no menus exists, direct the user to go and create some.
 		if ( !$menus ) {
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php b/src/wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php
index 4d380a25ee..6db82b1e8f 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ function wp_nav_menu( $args = array() ) {
 
 	// get the first menu that has items if we still can't find a menu
 	if ( ! $menu && !$args->theme_location ) {
-		$menus = wp_get_nav_menus( array( 'orderby' => 'name' ) );
+		$menus = wp_get_nav_menus();
 		foreach ( $menus as $menu_maybe ) {
 			if ( $menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items( $menu_maybe->term_id, array( 'update_post_term_cache' => false ) ) ) {
 				$menu = $menu_maybe;
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php b/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php
index 8a0ee77a4d..6c6af4b8a7 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ function wp_update_nav_menu_item( $menu_id = 0, $menu_item_db_id = 0, $menu_item
  * @return array menu objects
  */
 function wp_get_nav_menus( $args = array() ) {
-	$defaults = array( 'hide_empty' => false, 'orderby' => 'none' );
+	$defaults = array( 'hide_empty' => false, 'orderby' => 'name' );
 	$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
 
 	/**
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/post/nav-menu.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/post/nav-menu.php
index 35504d2b4f..07fa939477 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/post/nav-menu.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/post/nav-menu.php
@@ -116,4 +116,27 @@ class Test_Nav_Menus extends WP_UnitTestCase {
 		$this->assertEquals( 'WordPress.org', $custom_item->title );
 
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @ticket 29460
+	 */
+	function test_orderby_name_by_default() {
+		// We are going to create a random number of menus (min 2, max 10) 
+		$menus_no = rand( 2, 10 );
+
+		for ( $i = 0; $i <= $menus_no; $i++ ) {
+			wp_create_nav_menu( rand_str() );
+		}
+
+		// This is the expected array of menu names
+		$expected_nav_menus_names = wp_list_pluck( 
+			get_terms( 'nav_menu',  array( 'hide_empty' => false, 'orderby' => 'name' ) ),
+			'name'
+		);
+
+		// And this is what we got when calling wp_get_nav_menus()
+		$nav_menus_names = wp_list_pluck( wp_get_nav_menus(), 'name' );
+		
+		$this->assertEquals( $nav_menus_names, $expected_nav_menus_names );
+	}
 }