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ATLA

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The name ATLA comes from ATLI and is originally derived from ATTILA, and may have Icelandic, Danish, or Hungarian origins.

Possibly means "little father" from Gothic atta "father" combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 5th-century leader of the Huns, a nomadic people from Central Asia who had expanded into Eastern Europe by the 4th century. Attila was the name given to him by his Gothic-speaking subjects in Eastern Europe; his real name may have been Avithohol.

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