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).

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

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