The name Isidore comes from the Greek name Isidoros meaning "The gift of Isis". It is derived from Isis,
the name of the goddess in Egyptian mythology, which was the wife and the sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus,
and the Greek word "doron" meaning "gift".
Famous bearers
A bearer is Isidore of Alexandria, a Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists. He lived in Athens and Alexandria toward the end of the 5th century AD.
