You will need to manually create and maintain an index of names if you want to use your schema and support the first query. Given this requirement, I question your choice in data model. Your model should be designed with your read pattern in mind.
I presume you are also storing some column values as well that you want to query by timestamp. If so, perhaps the following model would serve you better.
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