Or someone assumed (or just tried) that other email address.
I signed up for my university's email forwarding for alumni early on and got my first name as my email. For quite a while, I would get emails, including fairly sensitive ones, sent to me by not yet very email savvy people just assuming you could send an email to someone's first name and it would get to them.
Nah, it happens with mangled names that no bot would ever try to stuff, too. E.g. I own derefr@gmail; but I sometimes receive email from people trying to reach a man named "Derek" — who almost certainly owns the address derek.fr@gmail, but probably typoed it once as dere.fr@, and now his browser autocompletes that into registration forms for him.
I signed up for my university's email forwarding for alumni early on and got my first name as my email. For quite a while, I would get emails, including fairly sensitive ones, sent to me by not yet very email savvy people just assuming you could send an email to someone's first name and it would get to them.