To my mind, the name of the spirit is it’s energy signature, so it’s not in human language limited to the sense of sound or to writing that the left brained human can quickly use… it’s a multifaceted, unique recognition that occurs on multiple levels of being.
So it makes sense to me that they would pause, because, you’re already talking to it, so it think syou already know it’s contact signature, which is so much more than a “name”.
My opinion on energy signatures is also mentioned here recently:
So my advice is asked them not for a “name” but for “what can I call you?”. Then they go “you can call me x”, and you get a handle pretty easily.