Flint
English
"born near outcrop of flint"
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Updated Wed Feb 19 2025
Flint Origin and Meaning
The name Flint is a boy's name of English origin meaning "born near outcrop of flint".
Flint is one of the new macho names on the rise today, part old-school tough guy, part rebel. You won't find a tougher, steelier-sounding name; it's part of a genre on the rise along with cousins Slate, Stone and Steel.
Flint found itself on the popularity list for a few years in 1959-60, but would prove a distinctive choice today.
Flint has superhero overtones--there's one in "Spiderman"--aka Sandman--and Captain Flint was a Marvel comic, and Flint is both a legendary pirate and a parrot in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. But on the softer side, there's also inventor Flint Lockwood in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
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# 820 in the US
Flint Rank in US Top 1000
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Flint Rank in Nameberry Top 1000
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Famous People Named Flint
- Flint DilleAmerican screenwriter
- Flint FlemingAmerican AFL player
Flint in Pop Culture
- Flint Marko aka William Baker aka Sandmancharacter in Spider,Man comics
- Flint Forstercharacter in animated series "Supah Ninjas"
- Flint aka Dashiell R. Faireborncharacter in the G.I. Joe series
- Flintcharacter in the "Power of Five" series
- Flint Lockwoodcharacter in film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
- Flintnotorious pirate captain in "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Marcus Flintcharacter in the "Harry Potter" series
- FlintMichigan, USA