Attila Name: Origins, Meanings, Numerology, Parent Name, Related Names

• Attila

  Destiny number: 9, Name power: 63

  Parent name for: Atila - Atilla

  Origin: Gothic

  Name: History - Hungarian - Turkish

  Name meaning: It means "little father", from Gothic "atta" - "father", combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 5th-century leader of the Huns, more cruel and savage than the Tartars, who invaded and ravaged Europe, before finally being slowed down at the Battle of the "Catalaunian Plains", in Gaul (present day France), by a coallition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and Visigoth king Theodoric I. Attila raged across Europe and was extremely feared, but failed to win either Constantinople or Rome. Attila was the name given to him by his Gothic-speaking subjects in Eastern Europe; his real name may have been Avithohol.