Atila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Atila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 16K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 68K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
13,527 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gótico: 'padrecito' (atta 'padre' + sufijo diminutivo -ila).
Sources 2
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atila 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.
13,527 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Atila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Attila (king of the Huns)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Gótico: 'padrecito' (atta 'padre' + sufijo diminutivo -ila).
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Latvian, Īss, divrindu pogu savienotājām auklām apšūts kamzolis; ungāru tautas apģērba un huzāru formas uzvalka daļa
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Huņņu vadonis (no 434. g.), valdīja teritorijā no Kaspijas jūras līdz Reinai, miris 453. g.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Meksikā (Atil), Sonoras pavalsts ziemeļu daļā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Attila Kelemenb. 1919ROnot in their usual namephysician (1919–1994)
- Átila Ióriob. 1921BRBrazilian actor (1921-2002)
- Átila Freitas Lirab. 1947BRbusiness administrator, economist and Brazilian politician
- Átila Linsb. 1950BRBrazilian politician
- Atila Pesyanib. 1957IRIranian actor
- Atila Kayab. 1957TRTurkish statesperson (born 1957)
- Atila Kasašb. 1968RSSerbian footballer
- Átila Abreub. 1987BRBrazilian racing driver
- Atila Turanb. 1992FRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Atila Septarb. 1996FRFrench rugby union footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 14K | #1,770 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 14K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 12K | #1,378 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #1,378 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 774 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 126 | #1,454 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 111 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Atila a male or female name?
- Atila is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Atila?
- In the etymology graph, Atilla, Attila and Edsel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Atila have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Atila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atila.
- How common is the name Atila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 13,527 people named Atila in 2022, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Atila compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Atila is the 951st most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atilaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Atila” — the 951st most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.