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Flint

Flint reached its high-water mark in 1959 at number 761, and has been recorded 2,601 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,284th. About 2,300 Flints are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Flint

By the numbers

Total US births
2,601
Estimated living today
2,300
Median age today
22
Peak year
1959
Best rank
761st
Rank in 2025
2,284th
First recorded
1913

How old the living Flints are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,601 babies given the name since 1913, about 2,300 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 240 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Flint is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Flint is most concentrated in Georgia (6.3×), Texas (2.8×), California (2.4×), Florida (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1959

The most popular boys’ names the year Flint peaked:

All the names of 1959

Flint elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Flint 133 2,014th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.