Optimizing a simple query on a large table

It would run faster with InnoDB,

• The PRIMARY KEY is 'clustered'; this makes the lookup into name faster.

• A suitable setting of innodb_buffer_pool_size of, say, 5G (for your 8GB machine) would cache a lot of stuff, thereby minimizing the I/O for 10K operations.

You could also shrink the data (and decrease the I/O) by using MEDIUMINT UNSIGNED or SMALLINT UNSIGNED where appropriate.

There are redundant indexes that could (should) be removed; this would speed up the load. Also name(6) is probably useless.