Flint Boy
How popular is Flint?
#2,284 boy name in 2025
61 baby boys were named Flint in the US in 2025, making it the 2284th most popular boy name.
Flint popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,284 for boys (▼ 327 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 61 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-18% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,955 in 2015, #1,946 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1959 (100 boys) |
| Highest rank | #760 in 1959 |
| First recorded | 1913 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Flint counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Flint family of names ranked #1,798 for boys in 2025 (#1,580 the year before), with 67 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Flint | 61 | 91% |
| Flynt | 6 | 9% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Flint is most popular
Babies named Flint per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Flint by decade
| Decade | Baby boys | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #2,495 |
| 1920s | 49 | #2,485 |
| 1930s | 19 | #2,742 |
| 1940s | 8 | #2,801 |
| 1950s | 232 | #760 |
| 1960s | 429 | #820 |
| 1970s | 241 | #1,545 |
| 1980s | 222 | #2,085 |
| 1990s | 166 | #2,918 |
| 2000s | 181 | #3,637 |
| 2010s | 622 | #1,707 |
| 2020s | 420 | #1,946 |
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Questions
- Is Flint a boy or girl name?
- Flint is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Flint were boys.
- How popular is the name Flint?
- 61 baby boys were named Flint in the US in 2025, making it the 2284th most popular boy name.
- When was Flint most popular?
- Flint peaked in 1959, when 100 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #760 in 1959.
- How many people are named Flint?
- 2,601 babies have been named Flint in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,334 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 24.
- Where is Flint most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Flint was most common in Georgia, at 0.1 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.