Why can I not create this user account?

I deleted an account and I'm now trying to recreate it. When I go to the Account manager and type in the name (using the same name I had before) I am unable to. I get the message "The name you have chosen conflicts with a name assigned to another user. You can't assign the name "Joe Smith" to two different users. Remember that name s are not case sensitive when check for conflicts."
The thing is, I don't have another user in any variant of Joe Smith.
What gives?

Same problem here: "The name you have chosen conflicts with a name assigned to another user." - "You can’t assign the name “x” to two different users. Remember that names are not case-sensitive when checking for conflicts."
When running a
$ dscl localhost -read "/Search/Users/x"
it returns a
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14136 (eDSRecordNotFound)

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