Flint
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning hard stone used to start fires.
Babies a year
91
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2014
12 babies
Flint by the numbers
In 2025, 12 babies in England and Wales were named Flint. In the US, 91 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 100 babies in 1959, making it a 1950s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Flint. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a stone or rock
Like Flint, each of these has a stone or rock in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Harleyhare meadow or rocky meadow366 in England and Wales (2025)
- Peterrock, stone1,777 in the US (2017)
- Harlowrocky hill or army hill832 in the US (2017)
- Pedrostone or rock; Spanish form of Peter809 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Flint
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