I'm a beginner in Japanese language. In English, "Company Name" and "Name of
Company" are basically the same. In Japanese, are those two the same or
different? Which one should I use?

  * 会社名前 
  * 会社の名前
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word-choice usage set-phrases phrases
Which one is correct 会社名前 or 会社の名前?
One of the uses of the の particle (that you will learn early on in Japanese)
is to show possession. "Company Name" is the same as "Company's Name".
Company's Name = 会社の名前
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会社の名前{なまえ} consists of two nouns, one describing the other. The one with の is
in genitive case which is used to indicate possession in this case. It's
roughly equivalent to _'s_ or _of_ in English: _company's name_ or _the name
of the company_ (both are translated to 会社の名前). Note that 名前 is a native
Japanese word and it uses kun-yomi reading of the kanji in this case.

As it happens often in Japanese, there's also a Sino-Japanese word with the
same meaning which uses on-yomi readings only. For company name it is
会社名{かいしゃめい} or 社名{しゃめい} (not 会社名前). As a rough rule, those kind of words are
usually more formal then equivalent native Japanese words.

Please also note that Japanese and English grammar don't work in the same way
and order of words in both language is often different and has a different
significance. You cannot really directly translate word by word.
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会社{かいしゃ}の名前{なまえ} is grammatically fine, and while compound nouns are sometimes
formed by simply eliminating the の particle (e.g.,本{ほん}の棚{たな} -> 本棚{ほんだな} or
勉強{べんきょう}の不足{ふそく} -> 勉強不足{べんきょうぶそく}), in this case the word you are looking
for is: 会社名{かいしゃめい} (the _on-yomi_ of 名 is generally used in compound nouns
and has the same meaning as 名前{なまえ} as a whole: _name_ ).
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