How to fix my iphone's hotspot s name?

Every time I connect my Windows laptop to my iPhone's hotspot, it has a new name which is always the next number from the previous one used. In simple terms, it starts as Alex's iPhone, then becomes Alex's iPhone 2, and on and on and on. Is there any way to prevent this? It gets really annoying to have to go in to my settings and merge the networks every week.

I've used my iphone hotspot thousands of times and never had this problem, but my best answer here is to go into itunes and change the name of your phone. This is how apple tells you to change the name of your hotspot just for fun. You could probably change it to another name that is less common and possibly prevent this? I'll keep checking apple message boards and see if anything comes up in relation to this problem. Post back if this works or with whatever method does work, that way I can post it to apple boards, please?

Did you have gold iPhone 5S?