First of all, for an embedded chart you are better off naming the
parent container, i.e., the chartobject, not the chart itself.

Second, it depends on how you create them. If you modifed the code
from the macro recorder, you would use something like:
Sub Macro2()
Dim x As Chart
Set x = Charts.Add()
With x
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A12")
.ChartType = xlColumnClustered
Set x = .Location(Whe=xlLocationAsObject, Name:="Sheet1")
End With
x.Parent.Name = "My Chart"
MsgBox ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("my chart").Chart.Name
End Sub

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This has got to be simple but I can't find it...
I'm using vba to create several charts as objects (as opposed to on their
own page). I want to refer to them later, so I want to give them meaningful
names - how do I name them something other than the default "Chart 1", "Chart
2" etc?

Thanks!