Is the word "name" a key word in CQL?

[jrmillerwork]

Simply creating a node with the attribute "name" results in the neo4j browser showing that name but if I call the attribute "namefoo" then the namefoo attribute is not shown on the node. Does "name " mean something to Cypher?

[andrew_bowman]

No, nothing reserved.

I think you're talking about the caption selected for display on the graph results view? If so you might want to check out my answer to a similar question:

Node name/text missing

The visualizer has no idea of what property of a node to use for the caption, and sometimes it doesn't select anything for the caption. You can change what is used for the caption on a label-wide basis. Click on the node label (near the top, just underneath the query string). When you do, you will see at the bottom of the result pane additional controls for changing how nodes of that label will display, including color, size, and caption to use. Click on the desired property to use as the…

[jrmillerwork]

is it possible that the term "name" means something to the visualizer? I understand now how "name" can be changed but it seems to me that the visualizer does in fact understand the term "name."

[andrew_bowman]

I did a bit of digging, there is a bias where the visualizer does look for a few specific properties to favor for automatic caption selection: name, title, label, description. If it finds one of those it may try to use that by default for the caption. As mentioned in the link you can always change the caption to whatever property you like for the given nodes.

[jrmillerwork]

thanks, appreciate the digging.