diff --git a/osm_nbi/base_topic.py b/osm_nbi/base_topic.py
index b66e6bd4a5757cc15a2d29c3f5a1102df4f47b7e..8cfa10b8f725e04eaa7d008afe2a1e10be7f5b15 100644
--- a/osm_nbi/base_topic.py
+++ b/osm_nbi/base_topic.py
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ class BaseTopic:
             _filter = {}
         else:
             _filter = self._get_project_filter(session)
-        _filter["git_name"] = content["name"]
+        _filter["git_name"] = content["name"].lower()
         if _id:
             _filter["_id.neq"] = _id
         if self.db.get_one(
@@ -821,9 +821,7 @@ class BaseTopic:
             # using random.choices()
             # generating random strings
             res = "".join(random.choices(string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits, k=n))
-            res1 = content["name"]
-            new_name1 = res1 + res
-            new_name = new_name1.lower()
+            new_name = (content["name"] + res).lower()
             return new_name
         else:
-            return content["name"]
+            return content["name"].lower()