Flint
Flint was given to 61 boys in 2025, #2,293 among boys’ names; 2,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,310 Americans named Flint and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 9 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Flint by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Flint mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Flint is “a male given name”
/flɪnt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Flint?
#2,293 among boys’ names, 2025
Flint fell from #1,963 in 2015 to #2,293 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.6 to 35.7 per million.
100 babies in 1959, the peak
Flint peaked in 1959, when 100 boys were given it, #761 among boys’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,293 | 35.7 |
| 2024 | 80 | #1,964 | 46.4 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,134 | 39.8 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,250 | 36.7 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,029 | 41.7 |
| 2020 | 74 | #1,950 | 42.9 |
| 2019 | 75 | #1,960 | 41.8 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,191 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 92 | #1,709 | 49.7 |
| 2016 | 86 | #1,776 | 45.3 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,963 | 38.6 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,103 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,258 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,568 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,015 | 20.0 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,277 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,662 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,589 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,042 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,877 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,348 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,468 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,434 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,562 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,544 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,263 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,602 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,241 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,390 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,878 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,952 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,639 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,540 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,179 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,506 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,090 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,559 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,098 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,135 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,316 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,867 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,314 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,518 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,290 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,518 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,868 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,225 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,986 | 15.2 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,295 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,365 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,904 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,851 | 15.9 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,710 | 17.3 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,739 | 16.0 |
| 1971 | 31 | #1,569 | 17.5 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,557 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 30 | #1,475 | 16.8 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,254 | 21.3 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,063 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,169 | 23.0 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,244 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,245 | 19.6 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,326 | 17.2 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,095 | 23.7 |
| 1961 | 59 | #1,017 | 27.8 |
| 1960 | 86 | #821 | 40.3 |
| 1959 | 100 | #761 | 46.8 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,191 | 19.8 |
| 1957 | 20 | #1,809 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,686 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,344 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,641 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,777 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,885 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,479 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,444 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,870 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,821 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,412 | 6.1 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,198 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,696 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,481 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,252 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,224 | 7.2 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,539 | 11.0 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,310 | 7.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,554 | 7.1 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,601 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Flint a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Flint has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Flint: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Flint, and how old are they?
2,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,601 Americans ever recorded as Flint. The median Flint alive today is 23 years old; half are between 9 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,825 people named Flint (17 women and girls, 1,808 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,972 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 373 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 366 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 317 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 323 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 926 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Flint born?
The states with the most babies named Flint are California, Texas and Georgia, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 104 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 91 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 75 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Utah | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 10 | #986 | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Flint with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,725 babies since 1880, Flint is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 67 babies (91%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Flint
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Laszlo | 1,057 | |
| Fitzgerald | 1,941 | |
| Barron | 5,647 | |
| Klaus | 1,471 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Flint and names like it
- Compare Flint and FlyntBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sFlint peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Flint since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Flint.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Flint alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.