Given name & surname
Atli
“from the meadow”·“God is just”·“The Lord is just; an orna-i ment”
Atli is a variant of Atley. One English interpretation is “from the meadow.” Atli is a variant of Adlai. Interpretations include “God is just” (Hebrew), “The Lord is just; an orna-i ment” (Hebrew), and “my ornament” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Atli is a variant of Atley. One English interpretation is “from the meadow.” Atli is a variant of Adlai. Interpretations include “God is just” (Hebrew), “The Lord is just; an orna-i ment” (Hebrew), and “my ornament” (Hebrew). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Atli is a variant of Atley. An origin associated with Atley is English. Atli is a variant of Adlai. An origin associated with Adlai is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old Norse Atli, from Proto-Germanic *attô (“father”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Atli is a variant of Adlai. The history of Adlai gives this family its wider story. Adlai appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Atli through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 17 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2019.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Atli’s family of names
Atli has a related form in Adlai. Atli has a related form in Atley. In Icelandic usage, Atli has a conventional equivalent in the Norwegian form ATLE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Atli
- Atli EðvaldssonIcelandic association football player and coach (1957–2019)
- Atli GregersenDanish footballerborn 1982
- Atli DamPrime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1932-2005)
- Atli DanielsenFaroese footballer (born 1983)
- Atli ÖrvarssonIcelandic film score composerborn 1970
- Atli GíslasonIcelandic politicianborn 1947
- Atli IngólfssonIcelandic composerborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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