3.4 Names

A name identifies the particular resource. A name (like a type) may be a number or a string, and they are distinguished in the same way as numbers and strings are distinguished in the type field.

Note that no padding (for DWORD alignment) is needed between the Type and Name fields, as they contain only WORD data and hence the Name field will always be properly aligned. However, there may need to be a WORD of padding after the Name field to align the rest of the header on DWORD boundaries.