Attila
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from the same Lallname type as Atto; later historical form
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Attila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 69(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 2.5K
- ATAustria≈1 in 5.7K
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69 (inferred from the name graph)
141,460 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the same Lallname type as Atto; later historical form.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Attila is read(measured from records)
Attila is one spelling over 4 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.
- Hungarian61%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Attila in Hungarian.
- English11%
Hungarian; "beloved father".
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- German7.2%
from the same Lallname type as Atto; later historical form.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
männl. Vom., der au f den Namen des
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Turkish7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Attila in Turkish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Attila 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #6 | 141,460 | 1 in 69 | 141K | Attila | 239 |
| RO Romania | #161 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Attila | 79 |
| CN China | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Attila | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Attila | 42 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 175 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | Attila | 47 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Attila | 47 |
141,460 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Attila is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Morocco, Rio de Janeiro
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Attila är en grekisk och latinsk form av Attala (→ Atle). En känd historisk n amnbärare var hunnernas härskare (ca 406–53). Namnet är vanligt bland annat i Ungern. Stavningen Atilla är en turkisk form.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Piccolo padre
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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)
- Attilab. 3955th-century ruler of the Hunnic Empire
- Rudolf Labanb. 1879HUnot in their usual nameAustrian choreographer (1879-1958)
- Attila Hörbigerb. 1896ATAustrian actor (1896-1987)
- Attila Józsefb. 1905HUHungarian poet (1905–1937)
- Attila Sallustrob. 1908PYParaguayan footballer (1908-1983)
- Attila Zollerb. 1927HUHungarian Jazz guitarist (1927-1998)
- Attila Czeneb. 1974HUHungarian swimmer
- Attila Elekb. 1982HUHungarian ice dancer
- Fiola Attilab. 1990HUHungarian association football player
- Attila Szalaib. 1998HUHungarian association football player (born 1998)
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 74 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 141K | #7 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 1.1K | #14 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2024 | 281 | — |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2024 | 281 | #42 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F) | 2025 | 265 | #40 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 175 | #819 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 4 | #841 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Attila mean, and where does it come from?
- from the same Lallname type as Atto; later historical form. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Attila have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 141 thousand people named Attila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled attila.
- Where is Attila most common?
- Attila is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 people carrying it.
- Is Attila a male or female name?
- Attila 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 Attila?
- In the etymology graph, Atilla, Atila and Edsel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Attila?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 141,460 people named Attila in 2025, about 1 in 69 residents.
- How common is Attila compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Attila is the 6th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/attilaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Attila” — the 6th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.