Samantha

[Anonymous]

I have a 2006 DD who has always had a few Samanthas in her classes / spports/ etc. It's a solid name with some popularity, but not Olivia or Madison.

[Anonymous]

Samantha on Who’s the Boss!! She was my favorite character. Made me love the name, although it also seems a bit dated to me because of that.
But it sounds like it’s making a comeback based on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Bewitched! and her daughter was Tabitha.

[Anonymous]

Please say you would dress her up the American Girl doll for Halloween when she's too young to object.

- 80s baby who adored the name/doll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve always liked it. It’s the type of name everyone can recognize but you’re still the only kid in your grade with the name. I put it into the “cool babysitter” category of names like Vanessa, Veronica, Sasha, Daphne, Whitney, Courtney, and Bianca, Sabrina. Uncommon but not unknown.

It had like a decade run of being in the top 10, peaking at #3. Definitely not uncommon for girls who are now high school/ college age

[Anonymous]

I am an 80s baby and when I was younger I desperately wanted to change my name to Samantha.

We know a little one, whose 8 years old. I like it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please say you would dress her up the American Girl doll for Halloween when she's too young to object.

- 80s baby who adored the name/doll

Lol well now! Love that idea haha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't associate it with a certain period; certainly not the 90s/00s. Did I miss a trend? My main references are Bewitched and SATC, so a pretty good breadth of time. More like a Valerie or Claudia - always around, never top 10.

Yes, #3 in 98.

OP, how about Samara?

DEATH SPEAKS:

There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

W. Somerset Maugham

[Anonymous]

ICarly