diff --git a/src/plots/cartesian/axes.js b/src/plots/cartesian/axes.js
index a83337f780e..423a856809c 100644
--- a/src/plots/cartesian/axes.js
+++ b/src/plots/cartesian/axes.js
@@ -571,12 +571,14 @@ axes.calcTicks = function calcTicks(ax) {
     if((ax._tmin < startTick) !== axrev) return [];
 
     // return the full set of tick vals
-    var vals = [];
+    var tickVals = [];
     if(ax.type === 'category' || ax.type === 'multicategory') {
         endTick = (axrev) ? Math.max(-0.5, endTick) :
             Math.min(ax._categories.length - 0.5, endTick);
     }
 
+    var isDLog = (ax.type === 'log') && !(isNumeric(ax.dtick) || ax.dtick.charAt(0) === 'L');
+
     var xPrevious = null;
     var maxTicks = Math.max(1000, ax._length || 0);
     for(var x = ax._tmin;
@@ -584,21 +586,29 @@ axes.calcTicks = function calcTicks(ax) {
             x = axes.tickIncrement(x, ax.dtick, axrev, ax.calendar)) {
         // prevent infinite loops - no more than one tick per pixel,
         // and make sure each value is different from the previous
-        if(vals.length > maxTicks || x === xPrevious) break;
+        if(tickVals.length > maxTicks || x === xPrevious) break;
         xPrevious = x;
 
-        vals.push(x);
+        var minor = false;
+        if(isDLog && (x !== (x | 0))) {
+            minor = true;
+        }
+
+        tickVals.push({
+            minor: minor,
+            value: x
+        });
     }
 
     // If same angle over a full circle, the last tick vals is a duplicate.
     // TODO must do something similar for angular date axes.
     if(isAngular(ax) && Math.abs(rng[1] - rng[0]) === 360) {
-        vals.pop();
+        tickVals.pop();
     }
 
     // save the last tick as well as first, so we can
     // show the exponent only on the last one
-    ax._tmax = vals[vals.length - 1];
+    ax._tmax = (tickVals[tickVals.length - 1] || {}).value;
 
     // for showing the rest of a date when the main tick label is only the
     // latter part: ax._prevDateHead holds what we showed most recently.
@@ -607,8 +617,15 @@ axes.calcTicks = function calcTicks(ax) {
     ax._prevDateHead = '';
     ax._inCalcTicks = true;
 
-    var ticksOut = new Array(vals.length);
-    for(var i = 0; i < vals.length; i++) ticksOut[i] = axes.tickText(ax, vals[i]);
+    var ticksOut = new Array(tickVals.length);
+    for(var i = 0; i < tickVals.length; i++) {
+        ticksOut[i] = axes.tickText(
+            ax,
+            tickVals[i].value,
+            false, // hover
+            tickVals[i].minor // noSuffixPrefix
+        );
+    }
 
     ax._inCalcTicks = false;
 
@@ -937,7 +954,7 @@ axes.tickFirst = function(ax) {
 // ax is the axis layout, x is the tick value
 // hover is a (truthy) flag for whether to show numbers with a bit
 // more precision for hovertext
-axes.tickText = function(ax, x, hover) {
+axes.tickText = function(ax, x, hover, noSuffixPrefix) {
     var out = tickTextObj(ax, x);
     var arrayMode = ax.tickmode === 'array';
     var extraPrecision = hover || arrayMode;
@@ -983,8 +1000,10 @@ axes.tickText = function(ax, x, hover) {
     else formatLinear(ax, out, hover, extraPrecision, hideexp);
 
     // add prefix and suffix
-    if(ax.tickprefix && !isHidden(ax.showtickprefix)) out.text = ax.tickprefix + out.text;
-    if(ax.ticksuffix && !isHidden(ax.showticksuffix)) out.text += ax.ticksuffix;
+    if(!noSuffixPrefix) {
+        if(ax.tickprefix && !isHidden(ax.showtickprefix)) out.text = ax.tickprefix + out.text;
+        if(ax.ticksuffix && !isHidden(ax.showticksuffix)) out.text += ax.ticksuffix;
+    }
 
     // Setup ticks and grid lines boundaries
     // at 1/2 a 'category' to the left/bottom
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/log-axis_no-minor_suffix-prefix.png b/test/image/baselines/log-axis_no-minor_suffix-prefix.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0c3dd72e759
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/image/baselines/log-axis_no-minor_suffix-prefix.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/mocks/log-axis_no-minor_suffix-prefix.json b/test/image/mocks/log-axis_no-minor_suffix-prefix.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c5eeabf8321
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image/mocks/log-axis_no-minor_suffix-prefix.json
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+{
+  "data": [
+    {
+      "name": "L10000000",
+      "y": [
+        1e8,
+        1e6,
+        1e7
+      ],
+      "type": "scatter"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "dtick=0.5 | tick0=1",
+      "xaxis": "x2",
+      "yaxis": "y2",
+      "y": [
+        1e8,
+        1e6,
+        1e7
+      ],
+      "type": "scatter"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "D1",
+      "xaxis": "x3",
+      "yaxis": "y3",
+      "y": [
+        1e8,
+        1e6,
+        1e7
+      ],
+      "type": "scatter"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "default",
+      "xaxis": "x4",
+      "yaxis": "y4",
+      "y": [
+        1e8,
+        1e6,
+        1e7
+      ],
+      "type": "scatter"
+    }
+  ],
+  "layout": {
+    "width": 800,
+    "height": 800,
+    "xaxis": {
+      "domain": [
+        0,
+        0.45
+      ]
+    },
+    "xaxis2": {
+      "anchor": "y2",
+      "domain": [
+        0.6,
+        1
+      ]
+    },
+    "xaxis3": {
+      "anchor": "y3",
+      "domain": [
+        0,
+        0.45
+      ]
+    },
+    "xaxis4": {
+      "anchor": "y4",
+      "domain": [
+        0.6,
+        1
+      ]
+    },
+    "yaxis": {
+      "tick0": 1,
+      "dtick": "L10000000",
+      "type": "log",
+      "tickprefix": "$",
+      "ticksuffix": "Hz",
+      "domain": [
+        0,
+        0.45
+      ]
+    },
+    "yaxis2": {
+      "tick0": 1,
+      "dtick": 0.5,
+      "type": "log",
+      "tickprefix": "$",
+      "ticksuffix": "Hz",
+      "anchor": "x2",
+      "domain": [
+        0,
+        0.45
+      ]
+    },
+    "yaxis3": {
+      "dtick": "D1",
+      "type": "log",
+      "tickprefix": "$",
+      "ticksuffix": "Hz",
+      "anchor": "x3",
+      "domain": [
+        0.6,
+        1
+      ]
+    },
+    "yaxis4": {
+      "type": "log",
+      "tickprefix": "$",
+      "ticksuffix": "Hz",
+      "anchor": "x4",
+      "domain": [
+        0.6,
+        1
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}