Dattening is a small town in the Shire of Pingelly, between Boddington and Pingelly in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

During the 1890s a farmer named Norris Taylor sunk a well in the locality and the area was initially known as Taylor's Well.

[1] By 1906 the local progress association petitioned for a townsite to be surveyed and blocks were subdivided in 1907.

The Morambine Road Board suggested the name Dattening, being the Aboriginal name of a spring in the vicinity of the well.

[3][4] The town residents petitioned for the name of the town to be changed to Taylor's Well in 1925,[5] and 1929 but were unsuccessful on both occasions.