The phrase "act was named" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific act or legislation that has been given a title or designation.
Example: "The environmental protection act was named the Green Earth Act to reflect its focus on sustainability."
Alternatives: "law was titled" or "measure was designated".
The act was named after Emmett Till, who was 14 when he was killed in 1955 in Mississippi.
The Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was named in his honour after his death in a 1998 skiing accident.
The Magnitsky Act was named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-corruption lawyer who died under suspicious circumstances in a Russian prison in 2009.
The measure, the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, was named for the son of Senator Gordon H. Smith, Republican of Oregon.
The measure, the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, was named for the East Texas black man who was dragged to his death from a pickup truck in 1998 by three white men.
But far more significant for business, in America and beyond, than the fate of the energy company's former bosses is the outcome of another "trial" that is now at a crucial stage that of the legislation introduced by Congress in 2002 in the wake of the Enron scandal.The act was named after its two main sponsors, Senator Paul Sarbanes (pictured right above) and Congressman Mike Oxley (left).
The act is named after a mentally ill man who was shot dead by police near Seattle in 2010.
The Volcker rule of the Dodd-Frank act is named after Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who proposed it.
The bill, the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, is named for a Russian lawyer who died in prison after attempting to investigate official corruption.
The act is named after a Virginia woman who waited six years for her kit to be tested, only to discover her attacker was already in prison.
The first sign of trouble was a desperately ill girl in San Diego (this was Lauren Rudolph, who died in late December 1992, and in whose memory a pivotal 1996 California food safety act is named).
