Samantha

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Samantha Given Name
Gender	Female
Meaning	possibly "Listener"
Region of Origin	England
Origin	Modern English
Related names	Sam, Sammi, Sammie, or Sammy
Popularity	Popular names page
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Samantha
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Samantha is a popular female given name. It might have been intended to be a female form of Samuel with the addition of the female name Anthea. However it does not retain the original meaning of Samuel because it is not actually a Hebrew name. It is sometimes claimed that Samantha means "listener" in Aramaic,^[1] but the evidence for this is weak.

Samantha, often shortened to Sam, Sami, Sammi, Sammie, Sammeh, or Sammy, is a relatively new name arising in the latter part of the 18th century.

[edit] Television and film

• Samantha, a fictional character on the UK radio panel game, I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue
• Samantha (telenovela), a 1998 Venezuelan telenovela
• Samantha Stephens, the lead character on the 1960s television series Bewitched
• Sammy Jo Carrington, full name Samantha Josephine Carrington, from the 1980s prime-time serial Dynasty
  • "Samantha" (Dynasty), a 1982 episode titled after the character
• Samantha McCall from the US daytime soap opera General Hospital
• Samantha Sami Brady, a character on the US daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives
• Samantha Jones (character) from Sex and the City
• Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1
• Samantha Samuels from Cory in the House
• Samantha Who?, a 2007 American sitcom starring Christina Applegate
• Samantha Mulder from The X-Files. She was Fox Mulder's sister
• Samantha Fox
• Samantha, a German Shepherd from the 2007 movie I am Legend.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Samantha, a popular American Girl Doll
• Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, TV movie based on the doll and book series

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