diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/OptimisticTransaction.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/OptimisticTransaction.scala
index fd10bd99a3..54ca25bb27 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/OptimisticTransaction.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/OptimisticTransaction.scala
@@ -704,9 +704,8 @@ trait OptimisticTransactionImpl extends TransactionalWrite
     }
 
     // We are done with protocol versions and features, time to remove related table properties.
-    val configsWithoutProtocolProps = newMetadataTmp.configuration.filterNot {
-      case (k, _) => TableFeatureProtocolUtils.isTableProtocolProperty(k)
-    }
+    val configsWithoutProtocolProps =
+      Protocol.filterProtocolPropsFromTableProps(newMetadataTmp.configuration)
     // Table features Part 3: add automatically-enabled features by looking at the new table
     // metadata.
     //
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/actions/actions.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/actions/actions.scala
index a692ce2c41..a5faa22dac 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/actions/actions.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/actions/actions.scala
@@ -425,6 +425,11 @@ object Protocol {
     (getReaderVersionFromTableConf(conf), getWriterVersionFromTableConf(conf))
   }
 
+  def filterProtocolPropsFromTableProps(properties: Map[String, String]): Map[String, String] =
+    properties.filterNot {
+      case (k, _) => TableFeatureProtocolUtils.isTableProtocolProperty(k)
+    }
+
   /** Assert a table metadata contains no protocol-related table properties. */
   def assertMetadataContainsNoProtocolProps(metadata: Metadata): Unit = {
     assert(
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/CreateDeltaTableCommand.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/CreateDeltaTableCommand.scala
index dfef8de28b..797d7ba196 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/CreateDeltaTableCommand.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/CreateDeltaTableCommand.scala
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.skipping.clustering.ClusteredTableUtils
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.DeltaColumnMapping.{dropColumnMappingMetadata, filterColumnMappingProperties}
-import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.actions.{Action, Metadata, Protocol}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.actions.{Action, Metadata, Protocol, TableFeatureProtocolUtils}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.actions.DomainMetadata
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.commands.DMLUtils.TaggedCommitData
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.coordinatedcommits.CoordinatedCommitsUtils
@@ -541,6 +541,10 @@ case class CreateDeltaTableCommand(
         // internal column mapping properties for the sake of comparison.
         var filteredTableProperties = filterColumnMappingProperties(
           tableDesc.properties)
+        // We also need to remove any protocol-related properties as we're filtering these
+        // from the metadata so they won't be present in the table properties.
+        filteredTableProperties =
+          Protocol.filterProtocolPropsFromTableProps(filteredTableProperties)
         var filteredExistingProperties = filterColumnMappingProperties(
           existingMetadata.configuration)
         // Clustered table has internal table properties in Metadata configurations and they are
diff --git a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/DeltaDDLSuite.scala b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/DeltaDDLSuite.scala
index 2304da97c1..13f5c8f618 100644
--- a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/DeltaDDLSuite.scala
+++ b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/DeltaDDLSuite.scala
@@ -41,6 +41,35 @@ class DeltaDDLSuite extends DeltaDDLTestBase with SharedSparkSession
     exception.getMessage.contains("Cannot change nullable column to non-nullable")
   }
 
+  test("protocol-related properties are not considered during duplicate table creation") {
+    def createTable(tableName: String, location: String): Unit = {
+      sql(s"""
+             |CREATE TABLE $tableName (id INT, val STRING)
+             |USING DELTA
+             |LOCATION '$location'
+             |TBLPROPERTIES (
+             |  'delta.columnMapping.mode' = 'name',
+             |  'delta.minReaderVersion' = '2',
+             |  'delta.minWriterVersion' = '5'
+             |)""".stripMargin
+      )
+    }
+    withTempDir { dir =>
+      val table1 = "t1"
+      val table2 = "t2"
+      withTable(table1, table2) {
+        withSQLConf(DeltaSQLConf.DELTA_UPDATE_CATALOG_ENABLED.key -> "true") {
+          createTable(table1, dir.getCanonicalPath)
+          createTable(table2, dir.getCanonicalPath)
+          val catalogTable1 = spark.sessionState.catalog.getTableMetadata(TableIdentifier(table1))
+          val catalogTable2 = spark.sessionState.catalog.getTableMetadata(TableIdentifier(table2))
+          assert(catalogTable1.properties("delta.columnMapping.mode") == "name")
+          assert(catalogTable2.properties("delta.columnMapping.mode") == "name")
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   test("table creation with ambiguous paths only allowed with legacy flag") {
     // ambiguous paths not allowed
     withTempDir { foo =>