Attila
This Germanic name means "little father". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 170 people carry it, nearly all of them men, and boys almost never get it now.
Attila Pronunciation
Attila is pronounced aht-TEE-lah (/atˈtila/).
What Attila means
Where Attila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Attila comes from Germanic soil. The Goths spoke of atta, meaning father, and pinned a diminutive ending onto it to make Attila, which reads as little father. The affection sits in the grammar itself.
History handed the name to its most famous bearer, Attila the Hun, who led his people across fifth-century Europe and pressed hard against Rome. The meaning and the man pull in opposite directions. One says little father. The other commanded armies.
Hungarian readers know a gentler Attila. The poet Attila József, born in 1905, bent the name toward verse rather than conquest. In a Polish class register the name still stands out, foreign and firm, its Gothic root atta keeping the sense of little father alive underneath.
How many people are named Attila
1 in 127821 men in Poland is named Attila. 169 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2460 among male names.
Attila's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Attila as a middle name
Attila is a first name for 169 men in Poland and a middle name for another 58, a 74/26 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 968th, between Ashraf (58) and Chinedu (58).
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#966 Arda58
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#967 Ashraf58
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#968 Attila58
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#969 Chinedu58
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#970 Craig58