http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-28807 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:03:47 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-28807 [...] 15. Samantha [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-27909 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:41:09 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-27909 [...] wasn’t well-known until Napoleon‘s bride brought the name to international attention.  Samantha is a twentieth-century [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-24132 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:38:36 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-24132 My parents decided to have the variation to Samantha, they are both from Chile and they decided to call my sister Samanta. I do like it alot more than Samantha, has a better ring to it. I’m not entirely sure if they just made it up though haha. I still like it more

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-23792 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:04:04 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-23792 [...] options like Tomasa, Albertine, and Hermina at the outer edges of the Top 1000, while others, like Samantha, are yet to take hold.  I’m guessing, but I suspect Alexine may have evolved from [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-23664 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:36:43 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-23664 [...] name attracted a flurry of attention when British prime minister David Cameron and wife Samantha welcomed their daughter while vacationing in Cornwall – and called her Florence Rose [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-22536 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:04:52 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-22536 [...] Or not enough of a somewhere to make it into our collective treasure trove of given names.  Samantha is a good example of an invented name that feels like it has always been with us; Merrilees is a [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-21589 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:05:08 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-21589 [...] feminine-but-strong choices like Alexandra and Samantha popular in recent years, Kerensa feels right at [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-21259 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:04:09 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-21259 [...] Samantha (#15) [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-17930 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:04:06 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-17930 [...] the US Top 1000 entirely after 1987, and yet she’d fit right in with Isabella, Gabriella, Samantha, Savannah, Alexandra, and Vanessa – the super-feminine names of the Top 100, most with some [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/11/10/name-of-the-day-samantha/#comment-9694 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:46:41 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=3596#comment-9694 I almost ended up a Samantha…sometimes I wish that I had been given that name, because it was less popular than the name I was given.

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