First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Norwegian: patronymic from Asle, ultimately from Old Norse Atli, literally ‘little father’. The personal name Attila is of the same origin.