How rare is the name Dat?

4,294 people in the United States have the first name Dat, about 1 in 70,338. It ranks #4,380 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

DAT

#4,380

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,294
About
1 in 70,338
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,294 people named Dat, 96.4% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 1.7% as White. 96.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dat peaked in 1981, when 26 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19792020
Peak year
1981
Births that year
26
In 2020
5 ▼81%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 534 babies have been given the name since 1979. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Dat by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #7,384. The largest share of babies named Dat, 50.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#24,5405
1980s#7,384160
1990s#9,222165
2000s#12,392150
2010s#24,52149
2020s#39,3255
Generation X 1965–802.2%
Millennials 1981–9650.4%
Generation Z 1997–1241%
2013 and later6.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Dat

2 other first names also have 4,294 people.

#4,380 Ariane · 4,294#4,380 Nedra · 4,294

Either side of Dat

#4,379 Kolten · 4,296#4,380 Ariane · 4,294#4,380 Nedra · 4,294#4,383 Fe · 4,290

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dat, most common first.

#14,716 Dawt · 796

Also a last name

As a last name, Dat ranks #108,023 of 156,621, with 175 people. See Dat as a last name

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