Do I have a weird last name? Do you know anyone with my last name?

Question

My last name shocks people. They ask me where did I come from. I've never met anyone who has the same last name as me. Someone told me that its rare but I dont think so. My Last Name Is Isom. It is pronounced Eye Some (what I was told) not really sure about my family .

Answer 1

I Googled "Tamara Isom" and came up with 9 hits. Have you?
Interesting name, not weird. Not shocking. Where's it from?

Answer 2

I wouldn't say it's weird. Definately stands out though. I've never heard of that last name before. But in the Customer Service business, I hear weird last names all the time. There was once this person's last name was "Just Got Shot". Yeah, Isom seems pretty normal suddenly!

I like your last name:)

Answer 3

I don't think it's weird at all. The last names came from the origin of your family. Back then when people didn't use last names they often had same first names. Then they started placing as last names what they do for a living or from where they live or from the names of their ancestors. For example are for a living is Smith, from where they came from is Moore, and from the descendants is O'Donnell. Just find out what's the meaning and you might find it's not weird at all, maybe you'll find out that you came from a distant land. Well anyway last names don't make the person. So don't let it bother you.

Answer 4

I have heard the last name before. I went to a nursing class with a lady named Tammy Isom. She lived in Loudon Tennessee.

Answer 5

It's not weird. It's just more unique than say, Smith, or Jones. Try doing a search on Yahoo or Google, see if you can trace any family lines or learn where your name originates. Check out the website for Ellis Island, you can do searches of your name and see what documents they have for when people with that name entered the country. Those documents will say what country they were originally from. Have pride in your name!!

Answer 6

There are lots of Isom's around here in Western Arkansas (Waldron, AR.) area. Nice people.

Answer 7

Not so unusual, it's Celtic in origin probably from people who lived by the river of the same name.

Answer 8

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
has 2,632 people named Isom who died 195x - 2006 in the USA.

http://find.person.superpages.com/
has 300+ listings in the USA. It stops after 300. I didn't specify state. They all have regular (not cell) phones.

It is a rare name, but you are not alone.


http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?
Isom
English: variant of Isham.

Isham
English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire named Isham, from the river name Ise (of Celtic origin) + Old English ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘promontory’ or ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Answer 9

used to be some Isoms here in Okla.

Answer 10

No weird than the last name Outhouse.