Is Isis Common?

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In both senses of the word. Some might say chav, whatever that means.
Dp has suggested this for a middle name if baby is a girl.
Is it a bit naff?

I used to row on it most mornings when I lived in Oxford, and loved it. Grubby old Isis with your psychotic moorhens, mad old fishermen, and punts full of idiotic tourists heading down the river the wrong way...

Seriously, though, I think it's a lovely name. I've met a few little Irises, and Isis seems like a nice variant.

No, just a dead man in a glass case.

It cannot be common as I have never even heard of the name

I don't know Fennel, I think Thames could make a reasonable alternative to the ubiquitous Thomas

Pronounced "Tar-mes"

lol @ Tar-mes. You could spend a lifetime explaining that one. "oh yes it's a little known Egyptian river..."

actually I've just wikipedia'd it and look, you could go with Tamesis, that's quite nice.

The Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Celtic name for the river, Tamesas (from tamēssa),[15] recorded in Latin as Tamesis and underlying modern Welsh Tafwys "Thames". The name probably meant "dark" and can be compared to other cognates such as Irish teimheal and Welsh tywyll "darkness" (PC temeslos) and Middle Irish teimen "dark grey

Any number of fine names in there, Fennel.

My friend had a cat called Isis, named after the Egyptian goddess. Not being funny about it, this was true. Quite nice for a middle name.

Nothing wrong with calling your child after your cat

(is there? we did it)

Suwoo- are you an America's Next Top Model fan by any chance?

A few cycles ago there was a contestant on there called Isis and she was a transexual!

Apart from that I think of the breast pump so it's a no from me I'm afraid.

it makes me think of this (maybe it wasn't on in the UK?!)

Isis Shazam!

the name ISIS is of one of the Oxford rowing teams too. It is the name of their second team, and the name of Cambridge's second team is Goldie. They race before the proper Boat Race. If it was twins you could go for Isis and Goldie ?!

My first thought was of the captain of the Clovers in the film Bring It On.

Disclaimer - I have a ten yr old DSD. I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Honest guv.

One of our brownies is an Isis - never knew this until i had to fill in some officially documents - she is always called Issy (pronounced as if short for Isobel) Never heard her called it outloud so no idea whether i pronounce it correctly in my head when i say eye-sis

Reminds me of the Ibis hotel chain...and an out of town night club named Isis (pondering whether eastendmummy's Isis is the same one) - I really can't think of it as her name simply because i have never heard her called it ever! Maybe that suggests she doesn't like it? I want to say it doesn't suit her but that may be because i think of her as Issy (not that tht really suits her either )

I might give up before the poor girls mother stumbles across this and i have to dig myself out of a hole about her nameless daughter!!

She will have a life time of explaining that it really is her name and not a misprint of Iris.

i know one - i think it is lovely - you dont wanna know what her siblings were called though

How about calling your daughter Isis and getting a lab to call Goldie?

Sir Laurence Olivier has a dgd named Isis I think it is a beautiful name.It is the name of the Thames as it flows through Oxford as well as an Egptian goddess Eyesis [pr]I think

Met a baby Isis recently, it's nice and unusual. Go for it!