Surname Spotlight: Sontag

In census returns, Sontag often stands in for Sonntag. The name is usually explained as “Sunday”.

• The same family of names includes Sonntagg, Sondag and Sonnentag.
• Sontag drops the “n” of Sonntag, a simplification that clerks often made.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Sontag with 2,134 bearers, at rank 14,090. From 1891 to 2000, 623 births in France were registered under Sontag.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Sonntag and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Sontag family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.