diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cc5ebbad..012333e8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ generate: build
 	bin/easyjson -build_tags=use_easyjson -disable_members_unescape ./benchmark/data.go
 	bin/easyjson -disallow_unknown_fields ./tests/disallow_unknown.go
 	bin/easyjson -disable_members_unescape ./tests/members_unescaped.go
+	bin/easyjson -disallow_duplicate_fields ./tests/duplicate_fields.go
 
 test: generate
 	go test \
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 943b9e4c..94b87710 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ Usage of easyjson:
     	only generate stubs for marshaler/unmarshaler funcs
   -disallow_unknown_fields
         return error if some unknown field in json appeared
+  -disallow_duplicate_fields
+        return error if a field appears in the json more than once
   -disable_members_unescape
         disable unescaping of \uXXXX string sequences in member names
 ```
diff --git a/bootstrap/bootstrap.go b/bootstrap/bootstrap.go
index 5755beea..f5b26f3a 100644
--- a/bootstrap/bootstrap.go
+++ b/bootstrap/bootstrap.go
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ type Generator struct {
 	OmitEmpty                bool
 	DisallowUnknownFields    bool
 	SkipMemberNameUnescaping bool
+	DisallowDuplicateFields  bool
 
 	OutName       string
 	BuildTags     string
@@ -137,6 +138,9 @@ func (g *Generator) writeMain() (path string, err error) {
 	if g.SkipMemberNameUnescaping {
 		fmt.Fprintln(f, "  g.SkipMemberNameUnescaping()")
 	}
+	if g.DisallowDuplicateFields {
+		fmt.Fprintln(f, "  g.DisallowDuplicateFields()")
+	}
 
 	sort.Strings(g.Types)
 	for _, v := range g.Types {
diff --git a/easyjson/main.go b/easyjson/main.go
index d337c846..b6095934 100644
--- a/easyjson/main.go
+++ b/easyjson/main.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ var noformat = flag.Bool("noformat", false, "do not run 'gofmt -w' on output fil
 var specifiedName = flag.String("output_filename", "", "specify the filename of the output")
 var processPkg = flag.Bool("pkg", false, "process the whole package instead of just the given file")
 var disallowUnknownFields = flag.Bool("disallow_unknown_fields", false, "return error if any unknown field in json appeared")
+var disallowDuplicateFields = flag.Bool("disallow_duplicate_fields", false, "return error if a field appears in the json more than once")
 var skipMemberNameUnescaping = flag.Bool("disable_members_unescape", false, "don't perform unescaping of member names to improve performance")
 
 func generate(fname string) (err error) {
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ func generate(fname string) (err error) {
 		LowerCamelCase:           *lowerCamelCase,
 		NoStdMarshalers:          *noStdMarshalers,
 		DisallowUnknownFields:    *disallowUnknownFields,
+		DisallowDuplicateFields:  *disallowDuplicateFields,
 		SkipMemberNameUnescaping: *skipMemberNameUnescaping,
 		OmitEmpty:                *omitEmpty,
 		LeaveTemps:               *leaveTemps,
diff --git a/gen/decoder.go b/gen/decoder.go
index 0a0faa26..f840e1e5 100644
--- a/gen/decoder.go
+++ b/gen/decoder.go
@@ -343,11 +343,17 @@ func (g *Generator) genStructFieldDecoder(t reflect.Type, f reflect.StructField)
 	}
 
 	fmt.Fprintf(g.out, "    case %q:\n", jsonName)
+	if g.disallowDuplicateFields {
+		g.imports["fmt"] = "fmt"
+		fmt.Fprintf(g.out, "        if %sSet {\n", f.Name)
+		fmt.Fprintf(g.out, "            in.AddError(fmt.Errorf(\"duplicate field %s\"))\n", f.Name)
+		fmt.Fprintf(g.out, "        }\n")
+	}
 	if err := g.genTypeDecoder(f.Type, "out."+f.Name, tags, 3); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if tags.required {
+	if g.disallowDuplicateFields || tags.required {
 		fmt.Fprintf(g.out, "%sSet = true\n", f.Name)
 	}
 
@@ -357,7 +363,7 @@ func (g *Generator) genStructFieldDecoder(t reflect.Type, f reflect.StructField)
 func (g *Generator) genRequiredFieldSet(t reflect.Type, f reflect.StructField) {
 	tags := parseFieldTags(f)
 
-	if !tags.required {
+	if !g.disallowDuplicateFields && !tags.required {
 		return
 	}
 
diff --git a/gen/generator.go b/gen/generator.go
index 79f4d6f7..5a2c1fb2 100644
--- a/gen/generator.go
+++ b/gen/generator.go
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ type Generator struct {
 	fieldNamer               FieldNamer
 	simpleBytes              bool
 	skipMemberNameUnescaping bool
+	disallowDuplicateFields  bool
 
 	// package path to local alias map for tracking imports
 	imports map[string]string
@@ -123,6 +124,11 @@ func (g *Generator) SkipMemberNameUnescaping() {
 	g.skipMemberNameUnescaping = true
 }
 
+// DisallowDuplicateFields instructs to error when a field is defined more than once
+func (g *Generator) DisallowDuplicateFields() {
+	g.disallowDuplicateFields = true
+}
+
 // OmitEmpty triggers `json=",omitempty"` behaviour by default.
 func (g *Generator) OmitEmpty() {
 	g.omitEmpty = true
diff --git a/tests/duplicate_fields.go b/tests/duplicate_fields.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c3c3e2c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/duplicate_fields.go
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package tests
+
+//easyjson:json
+type Dupl struct {
+	A int `json:"a"`
+	B int `json:"b"`
+}
diff --git a/tests/duplicate_fields_test.go b/tests/duplicate_fields_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e21d7d50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/duplicate_fields_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package tests
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/mailru/easyjson"
+)
+
+func TestDuplicateFieldError(t *testing.T) {
+	var d Dupl
+	err := easyjson.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"a": 1, "a": 2}`), &d)
+	if err == nil || err.Error() != "duplicate field A" {
+		t.Error("want error, got ", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDuplicateFieldNoError(t *testing.T) {
+	var d Dupl
+	err := easyjson.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"a": 1, "b": 2}`), &d)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error("unexpected error ", err)
+	}
+	if d != (Dupl{A: 1, B: 2}) {
+		t.Error("unexpected value ", d)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDuplicateFieldNoErrorWithoutOption(t *testing.T) {
+	// We use the DisallowUnknown struct, which is generated without the duplicate field check enabled,
+	// so we expect to get no error and the last given value.
+	var d DisallowUnknown
+	err := easyjson.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"field_one": "a", "field_one": "b"}`), &d)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error("unexpected error ", err)
+	}
+	if d != (DisallowUnknown{FieldOne: "b"}) {
+		t.Error("unexpected value ", d)
+	}
+}