identifier

Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.

Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.

A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).

(operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.

A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.

A primary key.