Just because you don't find it in Extend, doesn't mean that a Theme with that name hasn't been submitted. There are Themes in <a href="http://themes.svn.wordpress.org">themes.svn.wordpress.org</a> that were never approved to be listed in Extend. That appears to be the case here:<div>
<a href="http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/kiss/">http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/kiss/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Mats Birch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:birch@birchware.se">birch@birchware.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My theme was not approved due to some problem with the name. I called it "BirchWare Kiss", which turned out to be a bad idea. So I fixed it (removed the "BirchWare" part) and tried to upload it again. I got this:<br>
"There is already a theme called 'kiss' by a different author. Please change the name of your theme in style.css and upload it again."<br>
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Is it because my previous upload?<br>
I checked the Free Themes Directory, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=kiss" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/<u></u>themes/search.php?q=kiss</a><br>
"No results found."<br>
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I searched in other places, then this:<br>
"{18} All Tickets By Milestone (Including closed) (6460 matches)"<br>
<a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/report/18?max=10000" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.<u></u>org/report/18?max=10000</a><br>
There I found just one, my previous attempt:<br>
"#6211 THEME: BirchWare Kiss - 0.99"<br>
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So, can't I upload the fixed version? Seems strange.<br>
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If there is another theme with the name "Kiss", how can I find it?<br>
(If I have to rename my theme again, I want to know that the name is available before I start changing things.)<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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