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[Facts] Re: How did Isis get popular?
Isis first entered the top 1000 in the USA in 1994, which was the same year the video game called Isis was introduced:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5603838/Isis was also helped by the general fashion for names starting with vowels and its looking like a short form of Isabel or Isabella, especially to Hispanics who were already very fond of names like Damaris and Odalys and using -is or -ys as a diminutive to create new girl's names such as Janelys and Anairis. And it probably also had some boost in the African-American community where naming a child after an Egyptian goddess was seen as supporting African heritage.

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