Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

Since I had the same wrong idea, I dug further into the site.
The explanation is at https://www.iso.org/about-us.html
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It's all in the name

Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different 
acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation 
internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short 
form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the 
country, whatever the language, we are always ISO.

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