Songaila

Songaila is the masculine form of a Lithuanian family name. Its feminine forms are: Songailienė (Samogitian: Songālienė; married woman or widow) and Songailaitė (Samogitian: Songālaitė; unmarried woman). Variants Sungaila or Sungail were mentioned in the Treaty of Königsberg (1390). It is based on the pre-Christian Lithuanian name. Similar names are Sangaila, Songailas.

There is a place Sungailiškiai [lt] in Tauragė District Municipality, Lithuania, named after the surname.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Darius Songaila – Lithuanian basketball player
• Ringaudas Songaila – high-ranked politician of the Lithuanian SSR
• Gintaras Songaila [lt] – politician, chairman of the Lithuanian Nationalists Union
• Mykolas Songaila [lt] – architect

• Jonas Sungaila [lt] (1398 – after 1433), nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• Loreta Sungailienė (born 1977), Lithuanian ethnolinguist, folklore performer and TV host

See also

• All pages with titles containing Songaila
• All pages with titles containing Songailaite
• All pages with titles containing Songailiene
• All pages with titles containing Sungaila
• All pages with titles containing Sungailaite
• All pages with titles containing Sungailiene

References

Surname list

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