diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py
index 351a3e2fd548..f7dfa4c02b50 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py
@@ -1377,7 +1377,10 @@ def _reshape_2D(X, name):
result = []
is_1d = True
for xi in X:
- if isinstance(xi, collections.abc.Iterable):
+ # check if this is iterable, except for strings which we
+ # treat as singletons.
+ if (isinstance(xi, collections.abc.Iterable) and
+ not isinstance(xi, str)):
is_1d = False
xi = np.asanyarray(xi)
nd = np.ndim(xi)
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_category.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_category.py
index a6d6f9afb17a..c805643bd17e 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_category.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_category.py
@@ -295,3 +295,10 @@ def test_overriding_units_in_plot(fig_test, fig_ref):
# assert that we have not re-set the units attribute at all
assert x_units is ax.xaxis.units
assert y_units is ax.yaxis.units
+
+
+def test_hist():
+ fig, ax = plt.subplots()
+ n, bins, patches = ax.hist(['a', 'b', 'a', 'c', 'ff'])
+ assert n.shape == (10,)
+ np.testing.assert_allclose(n, [2., 0., 0., 1., 0., 0., 1., 0., 0., 1.])
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_cbook.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_cbook.py
index 1c2d31a839e1..cd2684c93a01 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_cbook.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_cbook.py
@@ -545,6 +545,12 @@ def __getitem__(self, item):
assert len(xnew) == 1
assert isinstance(xnew[0], ArraySubclass)
+ # check list of strings:
+ x = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'dd', 'e', 'f', 'ff', 'f']
+ xnew = cbook._reshape_2D(x, 'x')
+ assert len(xnew[0]) == len(x)
+ assert isinstance(xnew[0], np.ndarray)
+
def test_contiguous_regions():
a, b, c = 3, 4, 5
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