Dat
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Dat by the numbers
Dat was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 26 babies in 1981, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Dat
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dat. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.