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Microsoft Multiplan for CP/M supported that in 1982 (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/cpm/Microsoft_Multipl..., page 99)

I think later versions of VisiCalc did, too.

Former Excel 97-XP developer here. Excel 97 had English language formulas. It automatically detected names in tables; however, it was buggy. The feature was removed in a later version (2007?).

Already Lotus 1-2-3 for MS-DOS had named ranges.

As Excel was made since the beginning as a replacement for Lotus 1-2-3, I believe it also must have had named ranges at least from its version for MS Windows 3.0.

IIRC, when I have first used Excel, which was the Windows 95 version, it had them.

I recall it not have named ranges initially, but I remember them being added pretty quickly. Not sure what year, but very early.

The name manager was added in Excel 2007.