diff --git a/modules/dnn/include/opencv2/dnn/all_layers.hpp b/modules/dnn/include/opencv2/dnn/all_layers.hpp
index d9d1833780..24e792cb11 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/include/opencv2/dnn/all_layers.hpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/include/opencv2/dnn/all_layers.hpp
@@ -1204,6 +1204,12 @@ CV__DNN_INLINE_NS_BEGIN
         static Ptr<TopKLayer> create(const LayerParams& params);
     };
 
+    class CV_EXPORTS RandomNormalLikeLayer : public Layer
+    {
+    public:
+        static Ptr<RandomNormalLikeLayer> create(const LayerParams& params);
+    };
+
 //! @}
 //! @}
 CV__DNN_INLINE_NS_END
diff --git a/modules/dnn/src/init.cpp b/modules/dnn/src/init.cpp
index 61db2c1ba6..eea68d6af1 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/src/init.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/src/init.cpp
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ void initializeLayerFactory()
     CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(ScatterND,      ScatterNDLayer);
     CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(Tile,           TileLayer);
     CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(TopK,           TopKLayer);
+    CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(RandomNormalLike, RandomNormalLikeLayer);
 
     CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(Quantize,         QuantizeLayer);
     CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(Dequantize,       DequantizeLayer);
diff --git a/modules/dnn/src/layers/randomnormallike_layer.cpp b/modules/dnn/src/layers/randomnormallike_layer.cpp
index 30713390c9..4bd6ca5728 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/src/layers/randomnormallike_layer.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/src/layers/randomnormallike_layer.cpp
@@ -6,12 +6,11 @@
 
 #include "../precomp.hpp"
 #include "layers_common.hpp"
-#include <opencv2/dnn/layer.details.hpp>
 #include <cmath>
 
 namespace cv { namespace dnn {
 
-class RandomNormalLikeLayerImpl CV_FINAL : public Layer
+class RandomNormalLikeLayerImpl CV_FINAL : public RandomNormalLikeLayer
 {
 public:
     RandomNormalLikeLayerImpl(const LayerParams& params)
@@ -117,6 +116,9 @@ private:
     int depth;
 };
 
-CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS_STATIC(RandomNormalLike, RandomNormalLikeLayerImpl);
+Ptr<RandomNormalLikeLayer> RandomNormalLikeLayer::create(const LayerParams& params)
+{
+    return makePtr<RandomNormalLikeLayerImpl>(params);
+}
 
 }} // namespace cv::dnn