Phat — boys' name

What the Data Says About Phat

The Social Security Administration has registered 124 babies named Phat between 1981 and 2007, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Phat currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 8 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Phat performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 52 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Phat shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Phat in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Phat in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 124 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.