What is the name of the vertical bar in $(x^2+1)\vert_{x = 4}$ or $\left.\left(\frac{x^3}{3}+x+c\right) \right\vert_0^4$?

This may be called Evaluation bar. See, in particular, here (Evaluation Bar Notation:).


Jeff Miller calls it "bar notation" in his Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus (see below). The bar denotes an evaluation functional, a concept whose importance comes to the fore when one studies duality of vector spaces (e.g. such duality plays a key role in the Umbral Calculus).

The bar notation to indicate evaluation of an antiderivative at the two limits of integration was first used by Pierre Frederic Sarrus (1798-1861) in 1823 in Gergonne’s Annales, Vol. XIV. The notation was used later by Moigno and Cauchy (Cajori vol. 2, page 250).

Below is the cited passage from Cajori

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In my calculus book, the vertical bar is called the "evaluation symbol", and this phrase is bolded when first mentioned. It makes sense, I suppose.

Copy paste from wikipedia: Division is often shown in algebra and science by placing the dividend over the divisor with a horizontal line, also called a vinculum or fraction bar, between them.