Flint
#2,284 for boys in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · boys
- 1959 · 100 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,601since 1913
Flint over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Flint has never cracked the top 700 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,284 | 61 |
| 2024 | #1,957 | 80 |
| 2023 | #2,129 | 68 |
| 2022 | #2,243 | 64 |
| 2021 | #2,026 | 73 |
| 2020 | #1,946 | 74 |
| 2019 | #1,954 | 75 |
| 2018 | #2,189 | 63 |
| 2017 | #1,707 | 92 |
| 2016 | #1,774 | 86 |
| 2015 | #1,955 | 74 |
| 2014 | #2,098 | 66 |
| 2013 | #2,250 | 57 |
| 2012 | #2,551 | 48 |
| 2011 | #3,000 | 38 |
| 2010 | #4,241 | 23 |
| 2009 | #3,639 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #2,115 | 28 |
| 1986 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #2,292 | 22 |
| 1983 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1979 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #1,965 | 25 |
| 1977 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #2,329 | 19 |
| 1975 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #1,832 | 25 |
| 1973 | #1,696 | 27 |
| 1972 | #1,721 | 26 |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 31 |
| 1970 | #1,546 | 30 |
| 1969 | #1,463 | 30 |
| 1968 | #1,250 | 37 |
| 1967 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #1,164 | 41 |
| 1965 | #1,233 | 38 |
| 1964 | #1,236 | 39 |
| 1963 | #1,318 | 35 |
| 1962 | #1,091 | 49 |
| 1961 | #1,013 | 59 |
| 1960 | #821 | 86 |
| 1959 | #761 | 100 |
| 1958 | #1,186 | 42 |
| 1957 | #1,791 | 20 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #2,302 | 12 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | #1,856 | 17 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
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| 1934 | #2,742 | 8 |
| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
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| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1928 | #3,357 | 7 |
| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
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| 1922 | #2,486 | 12 |
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| 1920 | #3,208 | 8 |
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| 1915 | #3,392 | 6 |
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| 1913 | #2,496 | 6 |
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First appearance
1913
The first year at least five boys were named Flint! It came in at #2,496, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 327 spots since 2024 (#1,957 → #2,284)
- 338 spots since 2020 (#1,946 → #2,284)
- 329 spots since 2015 (#1,955 → #2,284)
- Biggest jump: 425 spots in 1959 (#1,186 → #761)
- Biggest drop: 192 spots in 1961 (#821 → #1,013)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1959 at #761 (100 births)
- Births halved by 1962, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1959–1960
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,119
- Highest: 1 in 20,119 boys born in 2017 were named Flint (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,001 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #761 in 1959, was only 1 in 21,345 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 23.9% of all boys named Flint (622) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #2,496 (1913) | #2,944 |
| 1920s | 49 | #2,486 (1922) | #3,150 |
| 1930s | 19 | #2,742 (1934) | #3,337 |
| 1940s | 8 | #2,802 (1949) | #2,802 |
| 1950s | 232 | #761 (1959) | #2,252 |
| 1960s | 429 | #821 (1960) | #1,262 |
| 1970s | 241 | #1,546 (1970) | #1,997 |
| 1980s | 222 | #2,090 (1988) | #2,425 |
| 1990s | 166 | #2,923 (1995) | #3,947 |
| 2000s | 181 | #3,639 (2009) | #4,905 |
| 2010s | 622 | #1,707 (2017) | #2,372 |
| 2020s | 420 | #1,946 (2020) | #2,098 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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