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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

13,527 people, 2022

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Italian

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.

Where Atila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—13,5271 in 16K14KAtila117
TR Türkiye—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 8.1K—Atila28
RS Serbia#951≈1,700 est.≈1 in 4.1K—Atila24
DE Germany—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 68K—Atila72
RO Romania—≈420 est.≈1 in 51K—Atila15
HR Croatia—1261 in 34K126——

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Atila is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Atilla, Attila, Атила, Атилла, Аттила

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Átila, Atïla, Atilà, Atîlà, ̶a̶t̶i̶l̶a̶

  • Swahili given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, India, Serbia

    Also written Átila

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Attila, Atilla, আতিলা, Átila, Ãtila

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Türkiye

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Átila

46 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.

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)

190019201940196019802000Attila Kelemen, b. 1919Átila Iório, b. 1921Átila Freitas Lira, b. 1947Átila Lins, b. 1950Atila Pesyani, b. 1957Atila Kaya, b. 1957Atila Kasaš, b. 1968Átila Abreu, b. 1987Atila Turan, b. 1992Atila Septar, b. 1996

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.

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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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.

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