I wasn’t thinking ahead when I made the scabbard to a sword I’ve been working on and now they’re both technically the same object. I want to assign the scabbard mesh to a different object name but I’m not sure how to accomplish this. I dont even know what keywords to use to find any helpful google results. 
Select the vertices you want for the scabbard and in edit mode press P to separate them into a new object.
Note that its origin will be in the same location as that for the original object. If you want to move it then look in the toolshelf for options
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PERFECT! Sorry for being late, I didn’t get a notification that someone replied.