Wordpress 404 error when adding /?name=someonesname at the end of my URL

Question

I am trying to pass informations from aweber to my thank you page, but for some reasons, only the name parameter doesn't work, it makes a 404 error.

Every other URL parameters works perfectly ( for exemple ?email=yourmail&birthday=02/05/1982 ) but the name makes this 404 error.

This problem was occuring on my landing page so i decided to try on the root url ( www.mydomain.com/?name=paul ) and it makes a 404 error also..

Can someone help me ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

name is a reserved term, you cant use it, try another variation

https://codex.wordpress.org/Reserved_Terms