As per ReNiSh A R's post, the answer is Mercury.
A quick Google search took me here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries <= second result!
If you control-F search the page, you'll find the following:
Mercury - discovered before 2000BC, so the planet will have been named after the element
Plutonium - About 1940/41, meaning it would have been named after Pluto (before it was declassified as a planet)
Uranus - Uranium discovered around 1789
Neptune - Neptunium discovered 1940
In addition, the only one of those having exactly the same name for both the planet and the element is Mercury.
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