サマンサは聖書に登場しませんが、サミュエルから作られた可能性があります。

Samantha is not in the Bible, but it may well have been built out of a name that is. The most likely explanation is that it was made as a feminine of Samuel, with the ending -antha added. And Samuel’s story begins with a boy who could not tell the difference between God’s voice and an old man calling from the next room. What does the name Samantha mean? We cannot be certain. It appeared in America in the eighteenth…