Sontag

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.

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 name·Encyclopedia 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 word·kaikki.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 name·Deutscher 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 name·Deutscher 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Sontag is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland

  Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

  Also written Sontág

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• 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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑnˌtæɡ/ (IPA) for English.

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.