Late to this party because I’m trying to integrate this with the OpenNest work eight days ago but failing so far. OpenNest is hung. 
OH! 3.3 million pieces, that’s not right!
Here’s what I did for this thread, using Python instead of Elefront to get the names.
import Rhino
import scriptcontext as sc
sc.doc = Rhino.RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc
name = sc.doc.Objects.Find(geo).Name
sort_by_name_2022Oct9a.gh (23.8 KB)
And here’s the integration with OpenNest:
sort_by_name_2022Oct9bb.gh (35.1 KB)