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.SONGAILA
There is a place 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 – politician, chairman of the Lithuanian Nationalists Union – architect
(1398 – after 1433), nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Loreta Sungailienė (born 1977), Lithuanian ethnolinguist, folklore performer and TV host
See also
References