Attila
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Attila is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the same Lallname type as Atto; later historical form.
- HUHungary1 in 69◐
- RORomania1 in 5.9K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 90K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈145K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 242 ●
- 1 in 69 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
32K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
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●
from the same Lallname type as Atto; later historical form.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 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 | #10 | 141,460△ | 18K rec. | 1 in 69 | 141K | Attila | 227 |
| RO Romania | #216 | 5,346 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Attila | 74 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,305 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Attila | 102 |
| US United States | — | 1,472 | 7.9K rec. | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Attila | 242 |
| SE Sweden | — | 924△ | 191 rec. | 1 in 11K | 924 | Attila | 48 |
| CA Canada | — | 525 | 462 rec. | — | 7 | Attila | 70 |
| BE Belgium | — | 458 | 412 rec. | — | 3 | Attila | 46 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 369 | 236 rec. | — | — | Attila | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 277 | 714 rec. | 1 in 181K | 277 | Attila | 48 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 268 | — | 1 in 40K | 268 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 256 | — | 1 in 827K | 256 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 212△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 181K | 212 | — | 2 |
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●
- Hungarian2.1M97%
- English18K1%
- German10K1%
- Turkish9K1%
- Portuguese4.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 2,142,611 | 97% |
| English | 17,614 | 1% |
| German | 10,218 | 1% |
| Turkish | 9,046 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 4,319 | 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●
Attila 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.
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
In English, Hungarian; "beloved father".
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, männl. Vom., der au f den Namen des
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Piccolo padre
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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 |
|---|---|
| 1958 | 10 |
| 1959 | 14 |
| 1960 | 14 |
| 1961 | 11 |
| 1962 | 12 |
| 1963 | 16 |
| 1964 | 16 |
| 1965 | 12 |
| 1966 | 11 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 16 |
| 1969 | 16 |
| 1970 | 11 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 9 |
| 1975 | 13 |
| 1976 | 11 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 15 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 12 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 63 years between 1958–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
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 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,323 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 1.1K | #14 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 924 | #1,789 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 514 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 461 | #2,155 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 452 | #2,701 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2024 | 281 | — |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2024 | 281 | #42 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 277 | #7,020 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 268 | #830 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F) | 2025 | 265 | #40 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 372 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Attila?
- We estimate roughly 145 thousand people bear Attila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Attila have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 141 thousand people bear Attila in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, 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.
- How common is Attila compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Attila is the 10th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Attila mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the same Lallname type as Atto; later historical form.
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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, “Attila” — the 10th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.