Atli

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Danish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse form of the Gothic name Attila ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

In the Nordic countries, the name has sometimes been associated with the vocabulary word atall = 'violent, wild' ^{[1] [2] [4] [5]}

Related Names

See Attila

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Atli
Accusative:	Atla
Dative:	Atla
Genitive:	Atla

- Faroese
Nominative:	Atli
Accusative:	Atla
Dative:	Atla
Genitive:	Atla

Further Information

Mythology

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

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	55	n.a
Sweden[8]		0	0	22	37
Norway[9]		0	0	9	24
Finland[10]		n.a.	2	n.a	2
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Atli.

Sources: ^{[8] [7] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
6. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi