Atli
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/atli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Atli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Atli, from late Germanic *Attilô, Proto-Germanic *attô (“father”). See Attila.
- FIFinland1 in 151K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)
49 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old Norse Atli, from late Germanic *Attilô, Proto-Germanic *attô (“father”). See Attila.
Sources 2
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atli counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 49 | 1 in 353K | 49 | Atli | 7 |
| FI Finland | 37 | 1 in 151K | 37 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 21 | 1 in 558K | 21 | Atli | 2 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 70 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 64 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | 2 |
49 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Atli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Abbreviation of anti-tuberculosis drug-induced liver injury.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, a male given name, compare Italian Attila and Norwegian Atle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nhn, To drink water, to give water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nhe, to drink water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Ģermāņu un skandināvu varoņeposa tēls, kura vēsturiskais prototips ir huņņu vadonis Atila
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Atli Damb. 1932FOPrime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1932-2005)
- Atli Gíslasonb. 1947ISIcelandic politician
- Atli Eðvaldssonb. 1957ISIcelandic association football player and coach (1957–2019)
- Atli Ingólfssonb. 1962ISIcelandic composer
- Atli Örvarssonb. 1970ISIcelandic film score composer
- Atli Gregersenb. 1982FODanish footballer
- Atli Danielsenb. 1983FOFaroese footballer (born 1983)
- Atli Jóhannessonb. 1988ISbadminton player
- Atli Oskar Fjalarssonb. 1994ISIceland actor
- Jón Atli Benediktssonb. 2000ISresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 49 | #31,437 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 37 | #29,240 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 21 | #46,048 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #45,023 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 17 | #26,489 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Atli mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Atli, from late Germanic *Attilô, Proto-Germanic *attô (“father”). See Attila. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Atli?
- A machine transcription gives /atli/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What are other forms of the name Atli?
- In the etymology graph, Etele is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Atli have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 49 people named Atli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atli.
- Where is Atli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Atli is densest in Finland — about 1 in 151 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Atli?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 49 people named Atli in 2007, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Atli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.