I was talking to someone and didn't believe her when she told me her name.
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— Andre Golo (@AndreGoLow) April 9, 2017
Prior to the formation of ISIS in 2013, anything with the misfortune of sharing a name with the terrorist organization was left scrambling to rebrand; for instance, the fictional spy agency in Archer or Lord Grantham’s beloved pooch on Downton Abbey, who was given a one-way ticket to doggy heaven over the coincidence. (RIP Dog Isis.)
People named Isis are another story altogether, as it’s not exactly easy to abandon the name you’ve gone by your entire life. And the 19-year-old woman pictured in the above drivers license received a double whammy in that department with her birth name, “Isis Harmabe.”
The other Isis, the one who shares her middle name with the beloved deceased gorilla turned internet meme, gained the viral notoriety she was literally born for when a man came into the restaurant where she works as a hostess this week, and sparked up a conversation. Upon learning her name, the man asked if he could tweet the photo of her license.
The Daily Dot confirmed the legitimacy of the driver’s license with the California State DMV, and also spoke to Isis (whose last name is Spjut) about her unique name.
“I trip out with my name constantly,” Isis—whose full name is Isis Harambe Spjut—tells the Daily Dot. “Like, when I meet people [and] I tell them my name, they’re, ‘That’s crazy, that’s funny.’ I’m literally like, ‘No, that is the craziest name you’ve ever heard in your life.’ I really have the most unique name in the world. Pretty trippy.”
“My parents, when I was born, they were both Rastafarians, and so my mom kinda picked my first name, and ‘Isis’ was a Bob Dylan song, along with the Egyptian goddess, and then Harambe means ‘Harmony’ in Swahili, and my Dad picked my middle name,” she explains.
Well, that explains that. Until of course, her last name Spjut (which apparently means “spear” in Scandinavian) attracts attention for some completely random and probably stupid reason, and then she’ll have the holy trifecta of unusual names. Good lucky, lady!
(Via Daily Dot)