Is it necessary for the name of a created being, which God initially named, to be uncreated, or does God Almighty not initially name His creatures?

The statement attributed to Imam Ahmad, that "Allah" is "Allah" and not "Allah" as a name, but rather all names are other than "Allah," because Allah says: (And to Allah belong the Most Beautiful Names) [Quran 7:180]—this statement has no problem and is considered a refutation of the Jahmiyyah who claimed that the name "Allah" is created.

The intention is that "Allah" is His essence, and the names refer to Him, but they are neither the essence itself nor created. So, a name sometimes refers to the named entity and sometimes to the word itself that denotes it.

As for the speech of Allah, including the names of Allah and the mention of the names of His creation, it is uncreated. However, the speech of human beings, even if it uses the same words and letters, is created. So, what Allah spoke is uncreated, and what the servant spoke is created, and the differences between them lie in the essence (the ذات) not in the type (the لفظ).