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Attila

#6,846 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly little father

Attila has been given to 665 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #6,846 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Attila, 2025

1 in 276,000

Attila 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Attila: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly little father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Attila means

Attila may mean “little father”.

Origin, language, and formation

Attila is used in Hungarian and Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Attila is pronounced [ˈɒtilːɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 665 boys were recorded with the name Attila between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,037 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,662 in 2020 to #6,846 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,656 in 2015 to #6,846 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Attila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,846
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Attila 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Attila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Attilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Attila was born before 1995 — so the typical Attila is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
665
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Choose a decade

1960s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (134).

Is Attila 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
+27
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−184
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,810
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2009 (18)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,037
1968

Spellings of Attila

Attila is not the most common spelling — Attilio is, with 61.6% against Attila's 38.4%.

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.

Where Attila is used

Across 1910–2025, Attila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,183,884 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Attila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Attila around the world

Where Attila 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
    2004–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1912–2025
    #3,056
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,335
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1953–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Attila by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,846
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 184
Best rank ever
#2,037
1968
Peak year
2009
18 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
665
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Attila

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

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Sibling names for Attila

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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