A branch with this name already exists

[tgp1994]

If creating a new branch that happens to have the same name as a branch that was deleted, the error "A branch with this name already exists." I've already waited nearly a week so I can't imagine there's a caching issue going on.

[Jobin Kuruvilla _Adaptavist_ · Accepted solution]

You might want to raise a support ticket with Atlassian at support.atlassian.com.

[tgp1994]

Will do, thank you. (Perhaps that might be the answer if you want me to accept it )

[Jobin Kuruvilla _Adaptavist_]

I am not going to sweat on it but I have made it answer

[Harshada Gothankar]

I am still having this issue, not able to create a new branch with the same name that I deleted. last week

[Arturs Zigurs]

I had the same issue just now.

Although what i noticed is that even the message "branch already exists with the same name" is displayed, branch is created in git underneath. 
I tried to to fetch in git console and the branch showed up in the list.

In order for branch to show up in BitBucket, i did an empty commit with a push and branch also showed up in BitBucket UI.

[Jobin Kuruvilla _Adaptavist_]

Branch names are case insensitive. Maybe there is another branch with the same name with different case?

[tgp1994]

Afraid not.