[name_f]Do[/name_f] you think [name_f]Isis[/name_f] is usable still?
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you like the name [name_f]Isis[/name_f]?
[name_m]How[/name_m] do you feel about the little girls with the name [name_f]Isis[/name_f]?
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you think that this family deserved this harassment?
[name_f]Isis[/name_f] may be usable in the future but certainty not now. My cousin’s wife is an [name_f]Isis[/name_f], and she hates the bad publicity that her name is getting. I think its quite sad that the little girl and her family are getting hate. Personally [name_f]Isis[/name_f] has never appealed to me before and after the [name_f]Isis[/name_f] situation.
No, it’s definitely not usable now. However, it could be usable again in the next 5 to 10 years. I really feel for that little girl and her family. She came along way before anyone knew about this group of people. It’s not like they named her after them. Personally, I am not a huge fan of it anyway, so I’ll never use it. [name_f]Iris[/name_f] is similar and much more usable at the moment. However, I always think of an eyeball and not the flower, so it has no appeal to me either.
I do like the name [name_f]Isis[/name_f] but it’s definitely not usable right now and probably won’t be for at least a few years AFTER the terrorist group have been exterminated (obviously not literally, but this word fits). I love [name_f]Iris[/name_f] though and it’s usable.
On the topic of that news article, that’s so sad. The family deserve none of that regardless of when they named her, and the fact little [name_f]Isis[/name_f] is not only five, but she’s sick, is disgusting that they have received so much hate.
“I honestly didn’t think anything of it when I printed them,” said the stay-at-home mom of two, 23, including another daughter Imelia, 2, with her husband, Jacob, 27. “I had started to hear of ISIS the terror group a couple of months earlier but to me that’s just an acronym, my daughter’s name is something completely different. But after [a fundraising event we held for our daughter], people started trying to drive me off the road, flipping me off, being aggressive… It was horrible.”
Especially this quote, just wow. Those who are terrorising the family are not any better.
Not usable at all. Obviously this poor family didn’t know that all of this would unfold and that the name would take on another meaning. I don’t think they should have to change their daughter’s name. Once a name is attached to someone for 5 years, it’s a bit unrealistic to expect a family to change their child’s name. She isn’t a pet.
They named their daughter before the terrorist group hit the news last year. It is unfortunate, but people who think before they react would realize this.
Honestly though, I might consider a name change. Definitely unusable now.
I 99% agree with the family - the group wasn’t prominent when their daughter was named, and you can’t just change a five-year-old’s name. The harassment they’ve been through seems awful and over the top and completely insane.
My only caveat: in the current climate, putting stickers on your car that say “TeamIsis” seems like a bad idea. Of course I don’t think they deserve to have been driven off the road, but not everyone else in the world would know their situation. If I saw that sticker on a car and didn’t know the family, I wouldn’t then yell at them or try to hurt them, but I’d be really uncomfortable and would assume these were [name_f]ISIS[/name_f] sympathizers.
And to answer your questions: no, I don’t think [name_f]Isis[/name_f] is a usable name now; I never loved it as a name anyway because the double "s"es can start to sound hissy (I do love [name_f]Iris[/name_f], though); and I feel really badly for girls who’ve been named [name_f]Isis[/name_f], as it is a legitimate, interesting name with a long history that’s now been ruined. If it were my name I might or might not consider using a middle name or nickname some of the time (like maybe on résumés and whatnot) because it has such awful connotations now that I could easily see it biasing employers against a candidate.
It’s a shame since [name_f]Isis[/name_f] is a pretty name. The family couldn’t have predicted that their daughter’s name would become the moniker for a terrorist group when they chose it. This family does not deserve the harassment they are getting. Due to the terror group, I wouldn’t use it now, but I do not think it is forever ruined.
That poor family. [name_f]Isis[/name_f] is definitley not usable now, no point in bringing all that unkindness on your family if you can help it. It is quite pretty, so I see the appeal. But if you know something will cause (serious!) grief then I would stay well away.
[name_f]Isis[/name_f] is a female given name. People who are not smart enough to separate the given name [name_f]Isis[/name_f] with the terrorist group are not worth listening to.
We shouldn’t really call the group [name_f]Isis[/name_f], or ISIL, or Islamic State. The Arab world calls them DAESH, which is similar to an Arabic verb meaning “to tread on”, and is used pejoratively. Daesh really hate being called Daesh, so… Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh Daesh.
I don’t think it is really usable right now due to the negative connection, the first thing most people will think of when they here the name is the terrorist group, which is highly unfortunate because i think the name is quite pretty and has a meaning that is not negative at all (“Throne”).
The name is also a name of the Supreme Egyptian [name_f]Goddess[/name_f] of the moon, sky, magic, motherhood and fertility, which i think is pretty awesome. It is sad that [name_f]ISIS[/name_f] has ruined the name.
I think it is horrible that the little girl and her family are getting harrased for her name. The mother states in the article that her daughters name is a whole different thing, which is true as [name_f]Isis[/name_f] is an Egypitain name and [name_f]ISIS[/name_f] is an acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, it would be completely different if the extremist group was named [name_f]Isis[/name_f] after a person named [name_f]Isis[/name_f], but it is not, it is an acronym for the groups name.
There’s an [name_f]Isis[/name_f] in a class I know and she’s around 17/18. Everyone seems pretty shocked by her name. But its a pretty name. Perhaps if you wish to use it, spell it differently like Aycis or something.
I understand [name_f]Isis[/name_f] was a name for a long time before it became a terrorist group but I find it completely unusable. I’m not sure why someone would use it to be honest, why would you want your kids name to be associated with a terror group who beheads people. If they were to ever google their name, the things that would come up would just be awful. I personally wouldn’t use the name, even if the group didn’t exist.
No one deserves harassment of any kind, I wonder if at the fundraiser there were signs of “help [name_f]Isis[/name_f]!” And it was misinterpreted, not that it’s excuse for hatred and harmful behavior.