Phất

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to hold up and wave (a flag, etc.)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Phất is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 109K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 117K
  • SESweden1 in 126K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,039 people, 2020

Sources
96 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Phat in US United States, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to hold up and wave (a flag, etc.)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Phất counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Phất is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,0391 in 109K2.9KPhat96
SE Sweden811 in 126K81—5
FI Finland241 in 232K96—2
NL Netherlands151 in 1.2M15Phat9
DK Denmark141 in 419K14——
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

3,039 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Phất is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Phat, Phât, Phàt, Phát, Phạt

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Phất under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Phất mean, and where does it come from?
to hold up and wave (a flag, etc.) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Phất a male or female name?
Phất is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Phất have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Phất, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phat.
Where is Phất most common?
Phất is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 109 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Phất?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,039 people named Phất in 2020, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Phất”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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