I don’t know if I’d call it a concise term as such, but one very common way of describing that you do know someone’s name, but you just can’t remember it right now is:
[His/her] name escapes me (at the moment)
This implies that you actively know the name, and that you’re aware that it’s just a temporary glitch that you can’t remember it.
If you’re talking about someone you’ve been introduced to once and then meet again after a while, forgetting is probably not even really the right term to use to begin with, since there’s likely to be little expectation of your remembering the name at all. Most likely, you’d just say, “I’m sorry, I don’t remember your name …”.
I’m not sure whether you’re looking for a word to describe the state of not remembering a name, the person who doesn’t remember the name, or the abstract concept of forgetting or not remembering names—but I don’t think there are any particularly concise terms for any of them, barring some obscure psychological neologism that I’m unaware of.
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