diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/application-code-bundle.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/application-code-bundle.ts
index 635faca8c82e..bf0389391489 100644
--- a/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/application-code-bundle.ts
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/tools/esbuild/application-code-bundle.ts
@@ -196,9 +196,14 @@ export function createServerPolyfillBundleOptions(
   if (isNodePlatform) {
     // Note: Needed as esbuild does not provide require shims / proxy from ESModules.
     // See: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/1921.
+    // Use an alias to avoid colliding with any `createRequire` import that may
+    // already exist in the bundled user code. ESBuild processes banner content
+    // as raw text outside of its module graph, so it cannot deduplicate or
+    // rename banner imports the way it does for user imports. Without the alias,
+    // a duplicate `import { createRequire }` binding would cause a runtime error.
     jsBanner.push(
-      `import { createRequire } from 'node:module';`,
-      `globalThis['require'] ??= createRequire(import.meta.url);`,
+      `import { createRequire as __ngCreateRequire } from 'node:module';`,
+      `globalThis['require'] ??= __ngCreateRequire(import.meta.url);`,
     );
   }
 
@@ -397,9 +402,14 @@ export function createSsrEntryCodeBundleOptions(
     if (isNodePlatform) {
       // Note: Needed as esbuild does not provide require shims / proxy from ESModules.
       // See: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/1921.
+      // Use an alias to avoid colliding with any `createRequire` import that may
+      // already exist in the bundled user code. ESBuild processes banner content
+      // as raw text outside of its module graph, so it cannot deduplicate or
+      // rename banner imports the way it does for user imports. Without the alias,
+      // a duplicate `import { createRequire }` binding would cause a runtime error.
       jsBanner.push(
-        `import { createRequire } from 'node:module';`,
-        `globalThis['require'] ??= createRequire(import.meta.url);`,
+        `import { createRequire as __ngCreateRequire } from 'node:module';`,
+        `globalThis['require'] ??= __ngCreateRequire(import.meta.url);`,
       );
     }