Flash CC HTML5 Get instance names on click?

I make escape games and often have lots of items in a scene each with flash instance names that on mouse over or mouse click make some event happen or some text is displayed.
I'm using Flash CC and HTML 5 output and cannot get it to output the instance names in the log, is this not possible? Can anyone suggest an alternative method of responding to lots of movieclips/buttons etc
Here's my test code:-
//stage.enableMouseOver(24);
var clicked = "";
var clickedname = "";
//NEED TO FIND OUT MOVIECLIP INSTANCE NAME??
var key1 = exportRoot.key1
//key1.name = "key1"
//console.log(key1ref.name)
stage.on("click", function (evt) {
    //clickedname = stage.getObjectUnderPoint(evt.stageX, evt.stageY)
    //clicked = evt.target
    clicked = evt.target
    console.log(clicked)
    //output result to log
    /*if (clicked == "key1"){
        console.log("clicked key 1")

Thanks Ned, I really appreciate the help as I've been stuck on this seemingly obvious thing for a few days now and can't progress until I can figure it out...
Basically using currentTarget it outputs this:-
a {id: 24, _matrix: a, _rectangle: a, children: Array[1], canvas: canvas#canvas…}
so comparing it to a name/instance name is not going to work ;-)
using evt.target gets me this:-
lib.key1 {id: 21, _matrix: a, _rectangle: a, image: img, x: -40…}
so again useless, a reference to the key1.png in the library but not to the named instances placed on the stage!!
Am I assigning the instance name correctly??
var key1 = exportRoot.key1
key1.name = "key1"
Any help from anyone appreciated!!

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