Attlea is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 6 characters long in length.
Attlea is variant of the Atlas. Descendant of Edel or Eidel meaning noble, corrupted through Edlin and Eidles which became Atlas.
Surname Attlea is a variant of Atlee. See Lee - Itself a surname, with the various modifications Atte-Legh (now Atlee) Lea, Ley, Lighe, Lye, etc., is undeniably the Anglo-Saxon leáh. It is, as Professor Leo observes, the equivalent of "the old High German lóh, and corresponds literally (allowing for the recog nized modification) with the Latin lucus; but whilst leah may enclose a thicket, or indeed an actual wood, it has a yet more general meaning, and may denote such an open field as would be rendered campus." Williams's Translation, Treatise on Local Nomenclature, 1852. Lea, the modern English word, signifies, however, meadow, pasture, or grass land. Nor must it be forgotten that the Anglo-Saxon leag or leah, has a totally different meaning, implying a territory or district in which a particular law or custom was in force. This term, varied in different ways, as lagu, leuga, and loney, was retained for centuries after the incoming of the Normans, to denote a particular liberty, franchise, ordistrict, as the league of Battel Abbey, the lowey of Pevensey, the loney of Tunbridge, etc. To some or all of these sources, we are indebted for a very large proportion of our local, and consequently of our family nomenclature in South Britain, for
"In Ford, in Ham, in Ley, and Ton,
The most of English Surnames run."