Flint
Masculine · “hard stone”
Flint is the stone that makes fire and takes an edge — and every stone-age technology in Europe ran on it.
How old is the name Flint?
Flint first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Flint alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 2,300 people named Flint are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Flint most popular?
Flint peaked in 1959, reaching #761 nationally. Today it ranks #2284, 1,523 places below that high. See the whole 1959 chart.
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Where it comes from
From flint to Flint
The story of Flint
Flint knaps to a cutting edge sharper than steel and strikes sparks against iron pyrite, which made it the basis of European technology for tens of thousands of years and of firearms until the nineteenth century. Flint is an English surname and place name. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
hard stone, flint
From the Old English flint, 'hard stone', cognate with the Danish flint and related to the Greek plinthos, 'brick'. The stone was the material of tools and the source of fire, which is why the word means hardness. The etymology is documented.
How the name formed
- flint
- Flint
Related forms: Flint · Flinte
Pronouncing Flint
FLINT
One syllable. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Flint
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 1959100 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #761reached in 1959
- Change vs 2023
- −10.3%61 in 2025, from 68
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Flint in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Flint in Danish — same name
- Flinte in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Texas, Florida.
Flints among us
people named Flint are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 28,001 born in 2025 was named Flint
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Woodroe test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Flint's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Woodroe climbed just as high around 1918, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Woodroe's path sketches the road Flint is walking now.
Flint sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Flint is headed
Flint should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Flint beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Flint in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That flint knaps sharper than steel is a first-rate fact.
- The meaning is concrete and needs no explanation anywhere.
- One syllable, hard, and never mispronounced.
- It is an ordinary English noun and reads as one.
- The Michigan water crisis is a strong American association.
- It is very short and can be swallowed by a long surname.
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Frequently asked
- How many Flints are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Flint are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Flint in 2025?
- Flint ranks #2284 among US boy names in 2025, with 61 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Flint?
- About 1 in every 28,001 US boys born in 2025 was named Flint — 61 in all.
- Will my child share the name Flint with classmates?
- Flint will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Flint
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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