1. Method for identifying a name by means of a terminal unit, especially for identifying an interrogated name of a starting location or destination or current location of a route in a navigation terminal unit based on a plurality of characters which are a component of the name and are interrogated in the terminal unit as a character string, wherein it is determined whether or not the interrogated character string corresponds to the start of a character string contained in a list of exceptions, this latter character string being contained in a plurality of names, wherein the user is asked to enter additional characters of the name when it is determined that the interrogated character string is contained in the exception list, while a process for unambiguous identification is introduced without further characters of the name being entered when it is determined that the interrogated character string is not contained in the exception list.