How do I search by layer name?

I have this new job where I use like 500 layers in a folder and sometimes I just know the name of an icon and I need to find it fast. Any tricks?

What version of Photoshop do you have??? It helps if you give a better description.
If you have CC then you get the following:
And you can select what you want to search on.

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