Sontag
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from a medieval German nickname for a person connected with Sunday, especially one born on that day; also an invented Jewish name based on German Sonntag
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈsɑnˌtæɡ/(machine-generated) English · model-generated
Sontag is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 20K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 211K
- BRBrazil1 in 342K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
2,134 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a medieval German nickname for a person connected with Sunday, especially one born on that day; also an invented Jewish name based on German Sonntag.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Sontag is read
(measured from records)Sontag is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English72%
from a medieval German nickname for a person connected with Sunday, especially one born on that day; also an invented Jewish name based on German Sonntag.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.3%
German surname from weekday name Sonntag 'Sunday'; spelling variant of Sonntag, likely nickname or reference to Sunday-born/sunday-related person. Bearer count not given.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
From the day name Sunday; likely motivated by birth on Sunday or by Sunday service duty. Bearer count: 313.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- French6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sontag in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sontag counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,134 | 1 in 156K | 2.1K | Sontag | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 619 | 1 in 342K | 619 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 285 | 1 in 20K | 285 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 165 | 1 in 232K | 83 | Sontag | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 38 | 1 in 455K | 38 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 20 | 1 in 211K | 27 | — | — |
2,134 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Henriette Sontagb. 1806DEGerman operatic singer (1806-1854)
- Karl Sontagb. 1828DEGerman actor, playwright and writer (1828–1900)
- Raymond James Sontagb. 1897USAmerican historian
- Susan Sontagb. 1933USAmerican writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
- Eduardo Sontagb. 1951ARArgentina-born American mathematician
- Andrzej Sontagb. 1952PLPolish triple jumper
- Frank Sontagb. 1955USAmerican radio host
- David Sontagb. 1960USAmerican professional wrestler and actor
- Tigab. 1974CAnot in their usual nameCanadian DJ and musician
- Elżbieta SontagPLPolish entomologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,098 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 619 | #14,055 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 285 | #5,603 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 83 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 83 | #34,384 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 82 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 82 | #35,192 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 76 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 38 | #36,618 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 27 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sontag mean, and where does it come from?
- from a medieval German nickname for a person connected with Sunday, especially one born on that day; also an invented Jewish name based on German Sonntag. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Sontag?
- In English /ˈsɑnˌtæɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Sontag have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Sontag, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sontag.
- Where is Sontag most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sontag is densest in Finland — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sontag?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,134 people named Sontag in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sontagThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sontag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.