Samantha in Cursive

Samantha in cursive is 𝒮𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒽𝒶. All eight letters come from the same Unicode script alphabet. Nothing is borrowed from the older letter set, so the name looks even from the S to the final a. In bold script it is 𝓢𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓱𝓪.

The cute short forms work the same way: Sam is 𝒮𝒶𝓂 and Sammy is 𝒮𝒶𝓂𝓂𝓎. They are handy where Samantha is too long, such as a gaming tag or a small charm.

If you searched for "the Samantha script", you may mean Samantha, a script typeface by Laura Worthington Design. It is a font you buy, install and use in design software. It shows up a lot on wedding invitations and Etsy listings.

The cursive on this page is different. It is made of Unicode characters, so it pastes into a bio, a caption or a chat with no font installed. Use the font for printed designs and this text for anywhere you type.

The middle of Samantha is a long run of round letters: a, m, a, n. Cursive m and n are made of humps, and a is a closed oval, so the hard part is keeping them from blending into one wavy line. Close every a fully at the top and the humps will stand apart.

Only the t and h rise above the rest. Make the h a tall loop, keep the t shorter, and cross the t after the last a.

The origin of Samantha is uncertain. It has been in use since the 1600s, and some experts link it to Semanthe, a name probably made up by the playwright Sir John Suckling for a character in his 1637 play Aglaura.

Two stories made it popular in the US. A series of novels by Marietta Holley, starting in 1873, featured a character called Samantha Allen. Then the TV show Bewitched (1964) starred a young witch named Samantha. The name jumped from 472nd place in 1964 to 179th in 1965. It was a top-ten girls' name from 1986 to 2006 and reached number 3 in 1998.