Can Java understand that threads which have same name are different threads?

Question

In each iteration, a thread "student" is created. Because those threads are all named "student". Can Java understand that these are different thread?

while (true) {
    System.out.println("Waiting for client...");
    // open client socket to accept connection
    client = server.accept();
    System.out.println(client.getInetAddress()+" contacted ");
    System.out.println("Creating thread to serve request");

    ServerStudentThread student = new ServerStudentThread(client);
    student.start();
}

Answer 1

From the Javadoc:

Every thread has a name for identification purposes. More than one thread may have the same name. If a name is not specified when a thread is created, a new name is generated for it.

The JVM tracks threads by their ID, not by their name.