Songaila
| Songaila | |
|---|---|
| Lithuanian surname | |
| m.: | Songaila, Sungaila |
| f.: (unmarried) | Songailaitė, Sungailaitė |
| f.: (married) | Songailienė, Sungailienė |
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.[1]
There is a place Sungailiškiai 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 – politician, chairman of the Lithuanian Nationalists Union
- Mykolas Songaila – architect
- Jonas Sungaila (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