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Flint

#2,293 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

Flint has been given to 2,601 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #2,293 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Flint, 2025

1 in 54,300

Flint over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Flint: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

English

What Flint means

Flint is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Flint is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Flint is pronounced /flɪnt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,601 boys were recorded with the name Flint between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1959; its best national rank was #761 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,950 in 2020 to #2,293 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,963 in 2015 to #2,293 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Flint?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,293
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Flint sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Flint. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Flints were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Flint was born before 1995 — so the typical Flint is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,513
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Choose a decade

2010s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (622).

Is Flint rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−329
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−343
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−330
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.0%
Peak was 1959 (100)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#761
1959

Spellings of Flint

Flint is not the most common spelling — Finn is, with 30.8% against Flint's 2.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Flint is used

Across 2016–2025, Flint was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 39,742 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 9,091
  2. 2Utah1 in 16,667
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Oregon1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Washington1 in 33,333
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Flint around the world

Where Flint ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Flint

People whose public names include Flint, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Flint by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,293
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 343
Best rank ever
#761
1959
Peak year
1959
100 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,601
Count in 2025
61

Names similar to Flint

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SaintKlintClintQuintToussaintBrintFlinnVintTrintFlipVincintBalintWint

Names with a curve like Flint

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Flint, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Flint

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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