For what it's worth, Unicode's CLDR names Unicode characters in multiple languages [1], although this work is done in phases, and usually the English names are ready before others. Unicode also maintains an informative emoji chart [2], which includes comparison pictures among popular glyph-sets, as well as an English short name.

[1] http://cldr.unicode.org/#TOC-What-is-CLDR- [2] http://unicode.org/emoji/charts-5.0/full-emoji-list.html