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?

Samara is a beautiful name, heard it from samara weaving, stunning actress of home and away fame, thought basically nobody over here would know her name so its almost totally unique :) trying to think of other similar names...cant think?

Samaire - there is an actress called Samaire Armstrong. It's pronounced Sameera. Quite pretty...

I know a Samia, her Dad's lebanese, and I think it's an arabic name.

Samia Smith plays Maria in Coronation Street. Nice name a cobination of Sam and Mia

I like Samia or Samara - much better than Samantha IMO

Saami or sami is a tribe in northen norway i thought that was quite a cool name for a girl!

Samuela. Italian.

You need a M surname. Then you can have Sophie Anne or whatever.
Mind you the girl I knew with those initials exploded if you called her Sam.

'tis also Thai for three.

This probably isn't helpful but I love the name Samantha, my friends daughter is Samantha Anne and gets called Samianne, so cute.

They will obviously be sat next to an Ella at school !

I know a Samaris and a Damaris -twins...

Samaris ( a character in a chalet school book)
Samia ( someone I knew at college)
Sam ( increasing popular for girls)
Samaya

Smilla

Another vote for Samara - I love it, it's on my imaginary shortlist for DC4 (although we're not having any more)

I know a Samreen, I see that's not been suggested yet

I like the Gaelic Samaire, pronounced Sameera.

Whoops, just realised Polkadotfanatic beat me to it

Duh - it hadn't occurred to me that my made-up name Samella was only a few letters away from being salmonella!!

Thank goodness I made clear it wasn't a serious suggestion...

Samaris and Damaris...eurgh! But I do quite like Samia.

would Sabine or Sabina be a stretch to make Sam a nickname?

I know a Samone

sameya too

Samphire - its plant- kinda nice for a girls name tho.

Samsara?
Samwise?

Actually, Samara/Sameera are lovely

Samphire

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