Lilmod, you are absolutely wrong. “Dati” is used for someone who is considered (some people talk the talk but in private don’t walk the walk but that is true across the board) a member of the non-Chareidi (or Chareidi Leumi – Chardal) religious public. Someone who is up front about no longer keeping mitzvot is a datlash/it (dati/a leshe’avar – formerly religious). Someone who cuts corners is “dati lite”. I have also heard of people named Datia, apparently the Hebrew equivalent of the Yiddish name Fruma.
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