Atli as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Atli

What is the meaning of the name Atli ?

The baby name Atli is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Icelandic/Old Norse: /ˈatli/ (AHT-lee); English: /ˈætli/ (AT-lee).

Atli is Norse in Origin.

Atli is an Old Norse masculine name with deep Germanic roots. Many scholars connect it to Gothic Attila, built on Proto-Germanic atta "father" plus the diminutive -ila, yielding the sense "little father" or "fatherly one." In medieval Scandinavian verse and saga prose, the name designates the Hunnic ruler known elsewhere as Attila, but it also functions as an ordinary given name in the North.

Atli figures prominently in the Poetic Edda and Völsunga saga as Guðrún's second husband, a powerful, often treacherous king; those narratives kept the name in Nordic memory. As a living given name, Atli has been continuously used in Iceland and remains well established there and in the Faroes, with occasional modern Nordic revivals. Related forms include Atle (Norwegian/Swedish), Attila/Atilla/Atila (Hungarian, Turkish, and other languages), and the rarer English Atley/Atlie.