Want Sam for a girl, is it short for anything apart from Samantha?

[weasleybreeder]

Pregnant with DC4, gave away all my baby name books as we were stopping at 3 but... I love Sam for a girl or boy but don't like Samantha, can it be short for anything else? If I have a boy it would be Sam short for Samuel but cannot think of girls names that get shortened to Sam except Samantha.
Any suggestions?

There's a girl who works on This Morning called Samanthi?

Samia or Samara maybe.

Samara?

Or Samira like the newsreader.

Samosa?

One thing about Samara - it's the name of the scary kid in 'The Ring'

I know a Samina

Sammy or Sammi. Personally I love the name Samantha. My DD's name.

sameera, sameena, samia, samaya,

I read a lot of the chalet school books when I was younger and one of the characters is Samaris.

My DS is called Sam - not short for anything, he is just Sam. I loved the name and didn't need it to be short for anything.

Samcam

I like Samara, I don't think many people would think of The Ring connection.

On Waterloo Road there was Sambuca

Selma?

Thomasina?

I was going to say Sambuca

I was going to say Sambuca as in the girl on Waterloo Rd

Jessamyn/Jessamine? Sam is in there!

Samuelle?

Samina or Samia sound lovely.

Sarah?

I know a Samaya

Not seriously suggesting this, but when I was a kid I invented a name for a character in a story I was writing: Samella, nicknamed Sammie.

Not sure it's really that good a name, but I was v proud at the time that I had 'invented' this name all by myself!

Another alternative for a boy name is Samwell, i realise you want girl names but i thought i would offer it up

Samera

I was going to say Samaris too........