name is not an allowed attribute of <table> in HTML5. From the fine specification:
Permitted attributes
global attributes & border
And if you look at the global attributes you won't find name in the list.
So you can't put a name attribute on a <table> and still have valid HTML. id however is a global attribute so you can use that instead of name (if of course your name is going to be unique within the page).
Try running this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head><title>t</title></head>
<body>
<table name="pancakes"></table>
</body>
through http://validator.w3.org and you'll see that it doesn't like a name on <table>.
If you're still writing HTML4, you still can't put a name attribute on a <table>. From the fine specification:
<!ATTLIST TABLE -- table element --
%attrs; -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
summary %Text; #IMPLIED -- purpose/structure for speech output--
width %Length; #IMPLIED -- table width --
border %Pixels; #IMPLIED -- controls frame width around table --
frame %TFrame; #IMPLIED -- which parts of frame to render --
rules %TRules; #IMPLIED -- rulings between rows and cols --
cellspacing %Length; #IMPLIED -- spacing between cells --
cellpadding %Length; #IMPLIED -- spacing within cells --
>
There's no name in that list and no name in coreattrs, i18n, or events either.
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