diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/URLSearchParams.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/URLSearchParams.js
index 3b7877ebce38..5d05022a769a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/URLSearchParams.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/URLSearchParams.js
@@ -121,7 +121,9 @@ export class URLSearchParams {
 
   sort(): void {
     this._searchParams = new Map(
-      [...this._searchParams.entries()].sort(([a], [b]) => a.localeCompare(b)),
+      [...this._searchParams.entries()].sort(([a], [b]) =>
+        a < b ? -1 : a > b ? 1 : 0,
+      ),
     );
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/__tests__/URL-itest.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/__tests__/URL-itest.js
index 2cf5e9d86924..a8366268df4f 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/__tests__/URL-itest.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Blob/__tests__/URL-itest.js
@@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ describe('URL', function () {
     expect(urlParams.has('query')).toBe(true);
     expect(urlParams.has('key')).toBe(false);
 
-    // Sorting URLSearchParams is not exercised here: URLSearchParams.sort()
-    // relies on String.prototype.localeCompare, which requires ICU collation
-    // support that is unavailable in Fantom's Hermes build.
-
     // searchParams.set() should replace values not duplicate them
     const urlWithSearchParams = new URL(
       'https://example.com/api/data?foo=bar&baz=qux',
@@ -166,3 +162,43 @@ describe('URL', function () {
     );
   });
 });
+
+describe('URLSearchParams.sort', () => {
+  it('sorts names by code units while preserving the order of duplicate values', () => {
+    const params = new URLSearchParams([
+      ['a', 'first'],
+      ['Z', 'uppercase'],
+      ['a', 'second'],
+      ['z', 'lowercase'],
+      ['ä', 'umlaut'],
+    ]);
+
+    params.sort();
+
+    expect(Array.from(params.entries())).toEqual([
+      ['Z', 'uppercase'],
+      ['a', 'first'],
+      ['a', 'second'],
+      ['z', 'lowercase'],
+      ['ä', 'umlaut'],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('compares supplementary characters using their UTF-16 code units', () => {
+    const params = new URLSearchParams([
+      ['\uE000', 'private use'],
+      ['\uD83D\uDE02', 'second supplementary'],
+      ['\uFF03', 'fullwidth'],
+      ['\uD83D\uDE00', 'first supplementary'],
+    ]);
+
+    params.sort();
+
+    expect(Array.from(params.entries())).toEqual([
+      ['\uD83D\uDE00', 'first supplementary'],
+      ['\uD83D\uDE02', 'second supplementary'],
+      ['\uE000', 'private use'],
+      ['\uFF03', 'fullwidth'],
+    ]);
+  });
+});