Attila is a popular name for boys in both Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 and Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. Another version of Attila in Hungary is Etele, the female equivalent of which is Etelka. Other versions of Attila used in Turkey are Atilla and Atila because consonant repetitions like "tt" in "Attila" are actually very seldom and difficult to pronounce in modern Turkish language.

Etymology

The word possibly originates from Turkic

Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of at least thirty five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.Turkic languages are spoken...

 Atyl/Atal/Atil (ancient name of Volga river

Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...

) with adjective suffix -ly which means "person from Atil". (Compare also Turkic medieval notable title atalyk - "senior as father"). Alternative version claims possibility of origin from Gothic

Gothic language

Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizable Text corpus...

 atte, literally "a father". Atya and Ata also mean "Father" in Hungarian and Turkish respectively.

Given name

• Attila (406-453), emperor of the Huns
• Attila the Hun (calypsonian)
  Attila the Hun (calypsonian)
  Attila the Hun , was a calypsonian from Trinidad.-Person:Atilla the Hun began singing in 1911 and was at his most prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the pioneers in spreading awareness of calypso beyond its birthplace in Trinidad and Tobago...
  
  , Trinidadian singer
• Attila the Stockbroker
  Attila the Stockbroker
  Attila the Stockbroker is a punk poet, and a folk punk musician and songwriter. He performs solo and as the leader of the band Barnstormer...
  
  , British punk poet
• Atilla Altıkat
  Atilla Altikat
  Colonel Atilla Altikat was the Turkish military attaché to Ottawa, Canada, who was assassinated in 1982. The Armenian group, Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide, claimed responsibility for the attack. The act was forcefully condemned by the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau.Before...
  
  , Turkish diplomat
• Attila Ambrus
  Attila Ambrus
  Attila Ambrus is notorious for committing a string of robberies in Hungary. He was born in a Székely Hungarian family in Fitod, a small village in eastern Transylvania, Romania, right outside Miercurea Ciuc....
  
  , Hungarian bank robber
• Attila Aşkar
  Attila Askar
  Attila Aşkar is a Turkish mathematician and former president of the Koç University between years 2001 and 2009.Aşkar received his Engineering Diploma from the Istanbul Technical University in 1966, and his PhD from Princeton University in the United States in 1969...
  
  , Turkish mathematician and president of Koç University
• Attila Böjte
  Attila Böjte
  Attila Böjte is a Hungarian footballer who currently plays as a defender.-External links:* **...
  
  , Hungarian football (soccer) player
• Attila Csihar
  Attila Csihar
  Attila Csihar , also sometimes known as Void, is a Hungarian black metal vocalist, best known for his vocal work on the album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem. Author Ian Christe describes his vocals as "operatic."-Biography:...
  
  , member of the metal band Mayhem
• Atilla Engin
  Atilla Engin
  Atilla Engin is a Turkish American fusion jazz musician. From 1974 to 2001 he was active in Denmark as a musician and educator; he organized music festivals and represented Denmark as a musical ambassador...
  
  , Turkish American musician
• Attila Horváth
  Attila Horváth
  Attila Horváth is a retired male discus thrower from Hungary, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics . His personal best is 68.58 metres, thrown on June 24, 1994 in Budapest, Hungary...
  
  , Hungarian discus thrower
• Attilâ İlhan
  Attila Ilhan
  Attilâ İlhan was a Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer.-Early life:Attilâ İlhan was born in Menemen in İzmir Province, Turkey. He received most of his primary education in İzmir. However, because of his father's job, he completed his junior high school education in different...
  
  , Turkish writer and poet
• Attila József
  Attila József
  Attila József was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.-Biography:The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Romanian origin from Bánát, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest. He had two elder...
  
  , Hungarian poet
• Atilla Koca
  Atilla Koca
  Atilla Koca is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Sivasspor in the Süper Lig.-References:...
  
  , Turkish footballer
• Atilla Koç
  Atilla Koç
  Atilla Koç , is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party. He was the Minister of Culture and Tourism in the first cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.He graduated from Ankara University.- External links :...
  
  , Turkish politician
• Atilla Özmen
  Atilla Özmen
  Atilla Özmen is a Turkish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Samsunspor.A native of Ayvalık, a seaside town in Balıkesir Province on Turkey's northwestern Aegean coast, Atilla Özmen played football since childhood and, in 1998, at the age of 10, was already a regular at Istanbul youth club,...
  
  , Turkish footballer
• Attila Petschauer
  Attila Petschauer
  Attila Petschauer was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Budapest, Petschauer was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics...
  
  , Hungarian 2x team Olympic champion saber fencer
• Attila Sekerlioglu
  Attila Sekerlioglu
  Attila Sekerlioglu is a retired Austrian footballer of Turkish descent. He played in midfield. After retiring, he moved into management. He is currently manager of Austrian club SV Stockerau.-Club career:...
  
  , Turkish footballer
• Atilla Şereftuğ
  Atilla Sereftug
  Atilla Şereftuğ is a Swiss-Turkish songwriter.-Career:In 1986, Şereftuğ participated in the Swiss heats of the Eurovision Song Contest as composer of the song Pas pour moi. The song's co-composer was Nella Martinetti. Pas pour moi won the Swiss final and, performed by Daniela Simmons, represented...
  
  , Swiss-Turkish songwriter
• Attila Szabó
  Attila Szabó (athlete)
  Attila Szabó is a male decathlete from Hungary. He twice won the men's national title in the decathlon: 2007 and 2009.-Achievements:-References:...
  
   (born 1984), Hungarian decathlete
• Atilla Yayla
  Atilla Yayla
  Atilla Yayla is a Turkish political thinker and a proponent of liberal democracy. He is Professor of Politics, Political Economy and Political Philosophy at Gazi University in Turkey -Life and career:He was born in 1957 in Kaman, Kırşehir....
  
  , Turkish political thinker
• Attila Zoller
  Attila Zoller
  Attila Cornelius Zoller was a Hungarian born Jazz guitarist. He won Deutscher Filmpreis for Beste Filmmusik in Germany for the film Das Brot der frühen Jahre in 1962.-Biography:...
  
  , Hungarian-born jazz musician