Strange name

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I was at work today and while on my break I happened to glance at a pinned up sheet of paper with the store names and numbers of the other branches of the company, as well as the names of each manager that ran each store. As I was scrolling through all the normal-sounding names, one caught my eye: Osiris.

I love the way it sounds and looks and assumed that the manager of that particular branch was a woman. I also knew it was Egyptian, but thought I'd Google it anyway.

'Osiris was an Egyptian god usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.'

So now I'm not sure whether the manager is a man or a woman, but I do think it sounds feminine and would use it for a girl... but it's a shame since I wouldn't want to really name my daughter after a God of death and the underworld!