Attila
#6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 1968 · 16 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 665since 1958
Attila over time
Rank among boys' names. Attila has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #5,942 | 8 |
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| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
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| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #2,130 | 16 |
| 1968 | #2,030 | 16 |
| 1967 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #2,465 | 11 |
| 1965 | #2,366 | 12 |
| 1964 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1963 | #2,044 | 16 |
| 1962 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #2,210 | 14 |
| 1959 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #2,642 | 10 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Attila! It came in at #2,642, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1988, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Attila
- 29 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #6,803)
- 183 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #6,803)
- 2,765 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #6,803)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 1968 at #2,030 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 106,715 boys born in 2014 were named Attila (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,030 in 1968, was only 1 in 108,623 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.2% of all boys named Attila (134) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 24 | #2,200 (1959) | #2,421 |
| 1960s | 134 | #2,030 (1968) | #2,280 |
| 1970s | 95 | #2,813 (1971) | #3,661 |
| 1980s | 48 | #4,052 (1985) | #5,405 |
| 1990s | 64 | #4,791 (1995) | #6,819 |
| 2000s | 119 | #4,890 (2001) | #6,601 |
| 2010s | 107 | #5,066 (2014) | #7,743 |
| 2020s | 74 | #5,874 (2022) | #6,814 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Attila in 1959
Top boys' names in 1959
More about 1959
boys
2,134,518 boys got a published name in 1959; 1 in 152,466 of them was named Attila, which outranked 51.9% of the 4,572 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,111Yvon15
- #2,111Zackary15
- #2,111Zeno15
- #2,200Attila14
- #2,200Amiel14
- #2,200Anothony14
- #2,200Arcadio14
- #2,295Adrien13
- #2,295Alen13
- #2,295Alferd13
Tied with 94 names at #2,200; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.