It's an honoring name given by Malaysians. Like Sir in English, or even higher than that.
Only One, DATO BABI.
Dato Barbakadze was born in 1966.
Dato Khujadze was born in 1975.
Dato Janelidze was born in 1958.
Hasna Mohamed Dato was born in 1959.
Dato Janelidze's birth name is Janelidze, David.
Sekolah Dato' Abdul Razak was created in 1957.
Dato' Keramat LRT station was created in 1999.
Dato' Seri Megat Jaafar died in 2003.
Dato Shushania was born on September 24, 1954, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_Hassan
Eduardo de Zulueta y Dato was born in 1923.