Given name & surname
Dat
“one who is accomplished”
Dat is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is accomplished.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is accomplished.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dat through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 534
- 534 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,294 as a first name in 2020; 175 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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