Klint
Masculine
Klint is Clint with a k, which is also the ordinary Scandinavian spelling of a word meaning a cliff. One Swedish painter of that surname made the first fully abstract paintings in Europe and then arranged for nobody to see them for twenty years.
How old is the name Klint?
Klint first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Klint alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 700 people named Klint are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Klint most popular?
Klint peaked in 1974, reaching #1747 nationally. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Klint
Hilma af Klint was painting large, deliberate, entirely non-representational canvases several years before Kandinsky, Malevich or Mondrian produced theirs. She was working from a private spiritual program, in a series she considered a commission, and she came to believe the world was not ready. Her will directed that the work not be shown until twenty years after her death. It was, eventually, exhibited much later still, and when it finally toured it drew record crowds and forced a rewrite of the standard account of how abstraction began. The paintings had been in storage, in their hundreds, the whole time.
Meaningnot established
Not established
If the name is Clint, it is a short form of Clinton, an English place name. If it is the Scandinavian word, it names a cliff or rocky outcrop. The record does not distinguish them and both are plausible.
Pronouncing Klint
KLINT
One syllable. The k changes nothing that can be heard.
Nicknames for Klint
Limited
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
- 1957
- Most boys named
- 198232 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1747reached in 1974
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%8 in 2023, from 8
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.
Klints among us
people named Klint are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Klint sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- One syllable and five letters: short, strong and impossible to mispronounce.
- The k is visually distinctive on a page of Clints, which is what it is for.
- It works as a Scandinavian word and an English short form at once.
- Clint is the standard spelling, so this version will be corrected to it regularly.
- One film actor has owned the sound in American minds for sixty years.
- No origin is documented for this spelling, so the meaning question has two candidates and no answer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Klints are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Klint are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Klint in 2025?
- Klint is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Klint with classmates?
- Klint will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More K names
The most-given names starting with K, all years combined.
Kenneth#294 · Kevin#221 · Kyle#508 · Keith#800 · Karl#1585 · Kaleb#295 · Kurt#2258 · Kelly#1867
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