Flint
About Flint
Flint is one of the new macho names on the rise today, part old-school tough guy, part rebel. You won't find a tougher, steelier-sounding name; it's part of a genre on the rise along with cousins Slate, Stone and Steel.
Flint found itself on the popularity list for a few years in 1959-60, but would prove a distinctive choice today.
Flint has superhero overtones--there's one in "Spiderman"--aka Sandman--and Captain Flint was a Marvel comic, and Flint is both a legendary pirate and a parrot in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. But on the softer side, there's also inventor Flint Lockwood in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
Pronounced FLINT.
As of October 2026, Flint ranked #2293 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #764 in 1959.
Editor's take: The name Flint is a boy's name of English origin meaning "born near outcrop of flint".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,103 | 66 | 34.4 |
| 2015 | #1,961 | 74 | 38.6 |
| 2016 | #1,776 | 86 | 45.3 |
| 2017 | #1,708 | 92 | 49.7 |
| 2018 | #2,192 | 63 | 34.7 |
| 2019 | #1,961 | 75 | 41.8 |
| 2020 | #1,949 | 74 | 42.9 |
| 2021 | #2,027 | 73 | 41.7 |
| 2022 | #2,250 | 64 | 36.7 |
| 2023 | #2,133 | 68 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | #1,970 | 79 | 45.9 |
| 2025 | #2,293 | 61 | 35.7 |
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Flint on lists
Famous Flints
- Flint Dille
American screenwriter
- Flint Fleming
American AFL player
Flint in pop culture
- Flint Marko aka William Baker aka Sandman
character in Spider,Man comics
- Flint Forster
character in animated series "Supah Ninjas"
- Flint aka Dashiell R. Faireborn
character in the G.I. Joe series
- Flint
character in the "Power of Five" series
- Flint Lockwood
character in film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
- Flint
notorious pirate captain in "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Marcus Flint
character in the "Harry Potter" series
- Flint
Michigan, USA