Atila
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Atila is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Turkish, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 16K◐
- DEGermany1 in 51K
- MXMexico1 in 136K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈159K ●
- Sources
- 169 ●
- 1 in 69 ◐
across 12 countries
21K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Attila in FR France, ES Spain, BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
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 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | — | 141,460△ | 46 rec. | 1 in 69 | 141K | Atila | 35 |
| BR Brazil | — | 13,527△ | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 16K | 14K | Atila | 117 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,357 | 2.6K rec. | — | 1 | Atila | 69 |
| MX Mexico | — | 2,336 | 2K rec. | — | 3 | Atila | 35 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,078 | 1.9K rec. | — | 68 | Atila | 37 |
| US United States | — | 1,472 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Atila | 71 |
| IN India | — | 944 | 944 rec. | — | 2 | Atila | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 924△ | 24 rec. | 1 in 11K | 924 | Atila | 5 |
| PE Peru | — | 612 | 505 rec. | — | — | Atila | 14 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 586 | 751 rec. | — | — | Atila | 33 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 405 | 383 rec. | — | — | Atila | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 334 | 285 rec. | — | — | Atila | 28 |
Roughly 141K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 69). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese193K66%
- Turkish65K22%
- English15K5%
- Spanish6.2K2%
- German2.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 193,406 | 66% |
| Turkish | 65,059 | 22% |
| English | 15,349 | 5% |
| Spanish | 6,160 | 2% |
| German | 2,739 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 51 |
| 2000 | 51 |
| 2001 | 50 |
| 2002 | 50 |
| 2003 | 54 |
| 2004 | 50 |
| 2005 | 52 |
| 2006 | 55 |
| 2007 | 54 |
| 2008 | 59 |
| 2009 | 61 |
| 2010 | 63 |
| 2011 | 60 |
| 2012 | 61 |
| 2013 | 61 |
| 2014 | 62 |
| 2015 | 64 |
| 2016 | 69 |
| 2017 | 71 |
| 2018 | 69 |
| 2019 | 70 |
| 2020 | 72 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 57 sources across 32 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 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 151 | #39,134 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 126 | #1,454 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 111 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 107 | #15,018 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 99 | #7,422 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 90 | #1,437 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 82 | #8,815 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 305 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Atila?
- We estimate roughly 159 thousand people bear Atila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Atila have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 141 thousand people bear Atila in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled atila.
- Where is Atila most common?
- Atila is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 people carrying it.
- How common is Atila compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Atila is the 832nd most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
- 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 832nd most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.