Where did the baby name Samaire come from in 2005?

Samaire Armstrong (as Anna Stern) The curious name Samaire appeared in the U.S. baby name data for three consecutive years in the early 2000s: 2008: unlisted 2007: 8 baby girls named Samaire 2006: 8 baby girls named Samaire 2005: 6 baby girls named Samaire [debut] 2004: unlisted What put it there? American actress Samaire (pronounced sah-mee-rah) Armstrong, who could be seen on several different television shows (The O.C., Entourage, Dirty Sexy Money) around that time. Here’s what she told the Chicago Sun-Times about her name in 2006: My first name is Gaelic and means “dawning sun.” […] My dad read Conan the Barbarian when my mom was pregnant with me. That’s where he got my name. I could not find her name in a Conan book, but I did spot it in a series of similar sword-and-sorcery books by Andrew J. Offutt. In one of these books, The Mists of Doom, the author claims that the name means “daybreak” in Irish. (Of the several Irish Gaelic words for “daybreak,” the one that comes closest to…