The Sontag surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,134 people carried this name — #14,090 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 138,900 people counted. That is up 1% from 2,114 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 306 people named Sontag.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 39 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Poland’s population register
136 people named Sontag have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 165 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 6 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Silesian.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In the Nordic population registers
100 people named Sontag are counted in Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Sontag in American newspapers,
1893–1896.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 22,802 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Sontag,
with a public archive behind them.
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Henriette Sontag 1806–1854 · actor -
Nina Sontag 1811–1879 · actor -
Karl Sontag 1828–1900 · actor -
John Sontag 1861–1893 -
Jacques-Emile Sontag 1869–1918 · archbishop -
Franz Sontag 1783–1819 · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sontag.
- Songy 507 · U.S. census
- Sonier 490 · U.S. census
- Sonmez 163 · U.S. census
- Sonneville 129 · U.S. census
- Sonnier 6,068 · U.S. census
- Sonntag 1,897 · U.S. census
- Sonzogni 122 · U.S. census
- Sophie 157 · U.S. census
- Soprano 447 · U.S. census
- Sor 539 · U.S. census
- Sorce 943 · U.S. census
- Sordelet 193 · U.S. census
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