'Noun' and 'name' are the same PIE word — one came through French, the other through Germanic.
A word used to identify a class of people, places, or things, or to name a particular one of these.
From Anglo-Norman 'noun' (late 13th century), from Old French 'nom' (name, noun), from Latin 'nomen' (name, noun — the Romans used a single word for both concepts), from PIE *h1nomn (name). This PIE root is one of the most widely distributed in the family and among the most stable across millennia: Sanskrit 'naman,' Greek 'onoma,' Latin 'nomen,' Old English 'nama,' Gothic 'namo,' Old Church Slavonic 'ime,' Armenian 'anun' — all descend from *h1nomn and all mean 'name.' The double role of Latin 'nomen' — serving as both the common word for 'name' and the grammatical term for the
'Noun' and 'name' are the same word — both descend from PIE *h₁nómn̥ (name). 'Name' took the Germanic path (Old English 'nama'), while 'noun' took the Latin-French path (Latin 'nōmen' to French 'nom' to Anglo-Norman 'noun'). Even Greek 'ónoma' (name) is the same word with rearranged sounds (metathesis). So 'noun,' 'name,' 'anonymous,' 'synonym,' and 'nominal' are all one ancient word.