diff --git a/src/node/src/common.js b/src/node/src/common.js
index e4fe5a8e035..19336ab840f 100644
--- a/src/node/src/common.js
+++ b/src/node/src/common.js
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ exports.getProtobufServiceAttrs = function getProtobufServiceAttrs(service) {
   var prefix = '/' + fullyQualifiedName(service) + '/';
   return _.object(_.map(service.children, function(method) {
     return [_.camelCase(method.name), {
-      path: prefix + _.capitalize(method.name),
+      path: prefix + method.name,
       requestStream: method.requestStream,
       responseStream: method.responseStream,
       requestSerialize: serializeCls(method.resolvedRequestType.build()),