ENH: Provide a Consistent Round-Trip Contract for Axis Metadata Across Excel and Other IO Formats

Feature Type

• Adding new functionality to pandas

• Changing existing functionality in pandas

• Removing existing functionality in pandas

Problem Description

When writing and reading a DF from Excel the the named index is lost for flat indices.

Feature Description

Add a flag or ability to specify index name is present.

Alternative Solutions

Do nothing.

Additional Context

No response