diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/yaml_orderd_mappings.yml b/changelogs/fragments/yaml_orderd_mappings.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cc118123c6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/yaml_orderd_mappings.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+    - Use OrderedDict by default when importing mappings from YAML.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py
index 4155994a0eb..923dc68d6e4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
+import sys
 import yaml
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
@@ -53,7 +54,17 @@ class AnsibleBaseYAMLObject(object):
     ansible_pos = property(_get_ansible_position, _set_ansible_position)
 
 
-class AnsibleMapping(AnsibleBaseYAMLObject, dict):
+# try to always use orderddict with yaml, after py3.6 the dict type already does this
+odict = dict
+if sys.version_info[:2] < (3, 7):
+    # if python 2.7 or py3 < 3.7
+    try:
+        from collections import OrderedDict as odict
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
+
+
+class AnsibleMapping(AnsibleBaseYAMLObject, odict):
     ''' sub class for dictionaries '''
     pass