Flint

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Flint is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 764th, in 1959.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 790.00% of boys
Peak year: 1959100 births
Best rank: #764in 1959
Since 1913: 2,539people given the name

Babies named Flint, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

2,539 boys have been named Flint in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 100 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 2010s alone account for 24%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Flint
1910s	12
1920s	49
1930s	19
1940s	8
1950s	232
1960s	429
1970s	241
1980s	222
1990s	166
2000s	181
2010s	622
2020s	358

In 1959, its biggest year

Flint was the 764th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.

Names that rose and fell with Flint

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.