Atli

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Old Norse Old Norse
Old Danish Old Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse form of the Gothic name Attila [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

In the Nordic countries, the name has sometimes been associated with the vocabulary word atall = 'violent', 'wild' [1] [2] [4] [9] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Attila

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Atlason Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Atladóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Atli
Genitive: Atlis
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Atli
Accusative: Atla
Dative: Atla
Genitive: Atla
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Atli
Accusative: Atla
Dative: Atla
Genitive: Atla
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Atli
Genitive: Atlis
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Atli
Genitive: Atlis

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norse Mythology

  • A name for heroes and kings in heroic poetry. In the Þulur, Atli is also listed, however, as a name for Þórr [6]

Namesakes

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Iceland Iceland[12]
829 1462
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[13]
67
n.a.
0
n.a.
67
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[14]
31 55 0 2 31 53
Greenland Greenland[15]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[16]
n.a.
4 0 0
n.a.
4
Norway Norway[17]
28
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
28
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Atli (m) Sources: [18]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  17. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. details see Name Statistic tables