Six-year-old Isis Rebanks is not a terrorist, but according to Nutella she isn’t fit for another label, either.

Last week, Ella Rebanks, Isis’s mother, was walking through a downtown store when she saw a stand offering personalized Nutella labels.

For $12.99, customers could have a name custom-printed on a jar of the popular hazelnut spread in the brand’s iconic black and red block lettering.

“I saw the stand and thought immediately, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s perfect, they’ll love that,’ ” said Rebanks.

She wrote down the names of her three children: Zuleika, Oliver and Isis.

Expecting to receive a sweet surprise for her children, she was sickened by what she says happened next.

“The staff went into a huddled conversation, and then one woman emerged and said, ‘I’m sorry, we can’t print that name,’” said Rebanks. “She just pointed at the name. She couldn’t even say it.”

This wasn’t the first time Isis, a name with ancient roots, has caused problems for the Rebanks family.

“Sometimes when I’m in the park and I have to yell ‘Isis’… people look twice,” said Rebanks.

Last year, she says another girl in senior kindergarten told Isis she was “named after a bad bomb” and told other girls they shouldn’t be friends with her because Isis and her family kill people.

The past few months have been tough on girls named Isis around the world. Just last month a 5-year-old named Isis living in Australia had her name blocked by Nutella after the computer program that prints the labels flagged her name as a word it couldn’t print.

In another incident, 9-year-old Isis Fernandes, from Winnipeg, received an apology from a member of the Canadian Forces who had refused to print her name on a certificate after she completed an obstacle course.

Rebanks said Isis often hears her name on the radio, prompting her to ask why people were talking about her.

“We explain that there are a bunch of evil men far away who have taken the letters of your name, and they’re the bad ISIS; you’re the good Isis,” said Rebanks.

The actual source of the little girl’s name is purely positive.

Isis’s father grew up in southern Oxfordshire, the part of England where the Thames River is referred to as the Isis.

“It’s a happy childhood memory for him,” said Rebanks. “When he hears her name, he thinks of walks along the Isis with his grandmother.”

When her husband first proposed the name, Rebanks did some research of her own and learned Isis was the name of a powerful Egyptian goddess.

“She’s a strong, kind woman. That’s a great name for a kid,” she said.

Rebanks called the company and asked to speak to someone "high up." She says she spoke with Tony Selina, who seemed, to her, apologetic, and he insisted there were several words that couldn’t be printed on the company’s products.

“My response was it was a subjective decision, and I think it’s one that was made out of fear,” said Rebanks, who noted that Coca Cola had no problem printing her daughter’s name on a custom bottle during this summer’s Pan Am Games. The Star contacted Selina who declined to comment and referred to the company's statement about the incident, confirming that that the name Isis had not been “approved for printing.”

“The aim of the campaign is to give fans of Nutella the chance to personalize their favourite hazelnut spread in a fun and joyful way… Unfortunately, this has meant there have been occasions where a label has not been approved on the basis that it could have been misinterpreted or viewed as inappropriate by the broader community,” it read.

It’s possible that the company is trying to distance itself from a bizarre trend of jihadists uploading pictures on social media while posing with jars of the spread, sometimes with rifles slung across their shoulders.

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Instead, Ferrero offered to print any nickname Isis goes by instead — as long as it wasn’t on their list of banned words.

But Rebanks said it will be a long time before the chocolate treat appears in her house again.

“Her name is Isis,” she said. “I’d rather not have the reminder of how they won’t write or even utter her name.”