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What is the NAME of Adams second wife (Lilith is the first; Eve is the third)?

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What is the NAME of Adams second wife (Lilith is the first; Eve is the third)?

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The second wife –ie the one between Lilith and Eve was not named, according to Wikipedia: “The Alphabet of Ben Sira Midrash goes even further and identifies a third wife, created after Lilith deserted Adam, but before Eve. This unnamed wife was purportedly made in the same way as Adam, from the “dust of the earth”, but the sight of her being created proved too much for Adam to take and he refused to go near her. It is also said that she was created from nothing at all, and that God created into being a skeleton, then organs, and then flesh. The Midrash tells that Adam saw her as “full of blood and secretions,” suggesting that he witnessed her creation and was horrified at seeing a body from the inside out. Ben Sira does not record this wife’s fate. She was never named, and it assumed that she was allowed to leave the Garden a perpetual virgin, or was ultimately destroyed by God in favor of Eve, who was created when Adam was asleep and oblivious. It should be noted here, that both Lili

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