diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/CodeBlock/index.tsx b/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/CodeBlock/index.tsx
index 60859031c2..de6f07a928 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/CodeBlock/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/CodeBlock/index.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ import type {Props} from '@theme/CodeBlock';
 import Translate, {translate} from '@docusaurus/Translate';
 
 import styles from './styles.module.css';
-import {useThemeConfig} from '@docusaurus/theme-common';
+
+import {useThemeConfig, parseCodeBlockTitle} from '@docusaurus/theme-common';
 
 const highlightLinesRangeRegex = /{([\d,-]+)}/;
 const getHighlightDirectiveRegex = (
@@ -85,7 +86,6 @@ const highlightDirectiveRegex = (lang) => {
       return getHighlightDirectiveRegex();
   }
 };
-const codeBlockTitleRegex = /(?:title=")(.*)(?:")/;
 
 export default function CodeBlock({
   children,
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ export default function CodeBlock({
 
   const button = useRef(null);
   let highlightLines: number[] = [];
-  let codeBlockTitle = '';
+  const codeBlockTitle = parseCodeBlockTitle(metastring);
 
   const prismTheme = usePrismTheme();
 
@@ -123,12 +123,6 @@ export default function CodeBlock({
     highlightLines = rangeParser(highlightLinesRange).filter((n) => n > 0);
   }
 
-  if (metastring && codeBlockTitleRegex.test(metastring)) {
-    // Tested above
-    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion, prefer-destructuring
-    codeBlockTitle = metastring.match(codeBlockTitleRegex)![1];
-  }
-
   let language =
     languageClassName &&
     // Force Prism's language union type to `any` because it does not contain all available languages
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/index.ts b/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/index.ts
index 29e4dd8af3..5792d43862 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/index.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ export {createStorageSlot, listStorageKeys} from './utils/storageUtils';
 
 export {useAlternatePageUtils} from './utils/useAlternatePageUtils';
 
+export {parseCodeBlockTitle} from './utils/codeBlockUtils';
+
 export {docVersionSearchTag, DEFAULT_SEARCH_TAG} from './utils/searchUtils';
 
 export {isDocsPluginEnabled} from './utils/docsUtils';
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/utils/__tests__/codeBlockUtils.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/utils/__tests__/codeBlockUtils.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..80e0f49fe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/utils/__tests__/codeBlockUtils.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+import {parseCodeBlockTitle} from '../codeBlockUtils';
+
+describe('parseCodeBlockTitle', () => {
+  test('should parse double quote delimited title', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`title="index.js"`)).toEqual(`index.js`);
+  });
+
+  test('should parse single quote delimited title', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`title='index.js'`)).toEqual(`index.js`);
+  });
+
+  test('should not parse mismatched quote delimiters', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`title="index.js'`)).toEqual(``);
+  });
+
+  test('should parse undefined metastring', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(undefined)).toEqual(``);
+  });
+
+  test('should parse metastring with no title specified', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`{1,2-3}`)).toEqual(``);
+  });
+
+  test('should parse with multiple metadatas title first', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`title="index.js" label="JavaScript"`)).toEqual(
+      `index.js`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test('should parse with multiple metadatas title last', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`label="JavaScript" title="index.js"`)).toEqual(
+      `index.js`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test('should parse double quotes when delimited by single quotes', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`title='console.log("Hello, World!")'`)).toEqual(
+      `console.log("Hello, World!")`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test('should parse single quotes when delimited by double quotes', () => {
+    expect(parseCodeBlockTitle(`title="console.log('Hello, World!')"`)).toEqual(
+      `console.log('Hello, World!')`,
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/utils/codeBlockUtils.ts b/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/utils/codeBlockUtils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5bb0cc941c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-theme-common/src/utils/codeBlockUtils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+const codeBlockTitleRegex = /title=(["'])(.*?)\1/;
+
+export function parseCodeBlockTitle(metastring?: string): string {
+  return metastring?.match(codeBlockTitleRegex)?.[2] ?? '';
+}