I work with her and no one ever mentions The Ring to her. When people come to work and read her name tag they often comment saying how pretty her name is and ask where it comes from. Never a reference to the movie. One of our regular customers actually named their little girl (who is about 8 months old now)
Samara after seeing
Sam's name tag.
Admittedly, it probably helps that she looks nothing like
Samara in the movie. She is blonde, tall, tanned skin, very pretty etc. If she was pale with very dark long hair there might be more of a problem.
I think
Samara is a really pretty name