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Atilla

#7,239 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Attila

Atilla has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #7,239 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Atilla, 2025

1 in 301,000

Atilla over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atilla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Attila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Atilla means

Atilla is a variant of Attila.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Atilla → Attila. The family’s proposed meaning is “little father”, recorded in the naming reference for Attila.

Origin, language, and formation

Atilla is used in Hungarian and Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Attila.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Atilla is pronounced [ˈɒtilːɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 124 boys were recorded with the name Atilla between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2012; its best national rank was #4,674 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,816 in 2020 to #7,239 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Atilla?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,239
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Atilla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atilla was born before 2009 — so the typical Atilla is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
124
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Atilla rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,822
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,577
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2012 (11)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,674
1974

Spellings of Atilla

Atilla is not the most common spelling — Attila is, with 84.3% against Atilla's 15.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Atilla around the world

Where Atilla ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #1,688
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1953–1965
    #574
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Atilla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,239
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,577
Best rank ever
#4,674
1974
Peak year
2012
11 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Atilla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AtikshAtilanoAtibaAbdallaAquillaDellaAbdullaStellaAtiimEstellaAtifBellaAtilioAtigunLuellaQuillaMarcellaVillaWillaIsabellaGabriellaPriscillaTchallaRolla

Sibling names for Atilla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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