There is no special name for them.

The URL specification generally describes them using symbols and just names everything around them.

URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]

hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty
/ path-absolute
/ path-rootless
/ path-empty

At one point it does say:

The authority component is preceded by a double slash

… which is as close as it gets to giving // a name.

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