Spotlight search in menu bar. Name only

Is is possible to search in the Spotlight menu bar by name only?
I tried kind:name but this didn't work. Is there anything like this I could add to the beginning of a search?

In Finder's Help menu, type search
When I do that, one of the items is "Specifying criteria in the Spotligh…", and selecting will tell more about what you want to know.
I believe what you are looking for (instead of kind:) is name:
Note that there can not be any spaces around the colon (:), so a search for items with iPhone in the name would be name:iPhone without spaces, and a search for "something else" with spaces would be name:"something else".
Kind is the type of object, such as image, movie, etc. It doesn't have anything to do with the type of search. If you start a search in the Finder (File -> Find…, or Cmd-F), a Finder window will open with an single search criteria set to the default of "Kind" is "Any". If you select the "Any" button then it will reveal the different options for Kind. Perhaps that will help.
You can also get a similar window by choosing "Show All" from the Spotlight menu after you've typed something, except it doesn't start with any criteria. Either way, you can add as many conditions as you want with the plus button on the right side of the search criteria.
The "Kind" button will reveal other types of criteria, such as Name and Contents. Note the window has "Filename" and "Contents" at the top since they are common criteria. Looking that over should give you some hints in the future.

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