User blog comment:Mobo85/Questions for Aliki Grafft/@comment-1856476-20110910203742/@comment-406459-20110912161158

There was a period where "Rai" was being used as Baljeet's official last name- it appears as such on the "Very Perry Christmas" DVD, the "Learn to Draw Phineas and Ferb" book, and the first three issues of Phineas and Ferb magazine. Swampy Marsh has stated at this Wiki that his name had to be changed for legal reasons. The movie tie-in magazine lists him simply as Baljeet sans last name. At the TimesTalks panel in New York City this July, it was stated that Baljeet's last name was Patel, but there was also a comment made that at one time Baljeet had a last name but it also turned out to be the last name of one of his childhood friends so it couldn't be used, which seems to refer to Mishti Patel from "That Sinking Feeling", which would mean that his last name couldn't be Patel because it's Mishti's. So it seems for now, Baljeet is just Baljeet.