Why doesn’t he want to mention any other girls?

i am friends with this guy and i have a feeling he likes me however, yesterday when we were talking he brought up how he met a girl at a party once, but once he said that he went “oh actually it’s, she’s not important, yea”.

today he asked me if I knew a girl from my class and once I asked “howd you know her?” he said “nah it’s silly, it’s fine we don’t need to talk about it”
I don't know why he’s deflecting because I don’t mind getting to know him and his female friends
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Hmmm that’s true, he started mentioning a girl he knew but then stopped talking about it
Why doesn’t he want to mention any other girls?
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