Songaila

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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 Template:Ill in Tauragė District Municipality, Lithuania, named after the surname.

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Template:Ill (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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