Flint Surname
Approximately 38,181 people bear this surname
Flint Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Flint.' 'In Domesday we have in Suffolk an Alwin Flint' (Lower, Patronymica Britannica). Mr. Lower further says, 'Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors had a subordinate deity whom they named Flint, and whose idol was an actual flint-stone of large size.
Read More About This SurnameFlint Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 20,040 | 1:18,087 | 2,290 |
| England | 9,339 | 1:5,966 | 856 |
| Australia | 2,977 | 1:9,068 | 1,346 |
| Canada | 1,347 | 1:27,354 | 3,635 |
| Germany | 813 | 1:99,023 | 12,296 |
| Russia | 522 | 1:276,098 | 28,711 |
| South Africa | 460 | 1:117,778 | 14,016 |
| New Zealand | 366 | 1:12,372 | 2,153 |
| Scotland | 300 | 1:17,846 | 2,146 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| Nigeria | 177 | 1:1,000,807 | 42,311 |
| Wales | 164 | 1:18,869 | 2,022 |
| Netherlands | 141 | 1:119,767 | 18,833 |
| Thailand | 128 | 1:551,862 | 94,667 |
| Northern Ireland | 106 | 1:17,406 | 2,244 |
| Denmark | 93 | 1:60,696 | 6,147 |
| France | 88 | 1:754,804 | 92,996 |
| Argentina | 78 | 1:547,992 | 39,725 |
| Japan | 67 | 1:1,908,124 | 27,203 |
| Isle of Man | 61 | 1:1,407 | 240 |
| Spain | 48 | 1:974,001 | 36,812 |
| Sweden | 46 | 1:214,060 | 14,843 |
| Belarus | 43 | 1:220,955 | 27,273 |
| Brazil | 40 | 1:5,351,858 | 134,966 |
| Singapore | 39 | 1:141,223 | 6,278 |
| Poland | 36 | 1:1,055,799 | 73,637 |
| Ireland | 30 | 1:156,965 | 7,012 |
| Barbados | 27 | 1:10,646 | 786 |
| Belgium | 27 | 1:425,802 | 43,971 |
| Lithuania | 25 | 1:121,384 | 14,277 |
| United Arab Emirates | 20 | 1:458,114 | 23,187 |
| Zimbabwe | 17 | 1:908,132 | 59,260 |
| Austria | 15 | 1:567,696 | 52,281 |
| Estonia | 12 | 1:110,150 | 19,471 |
| India | 12 | 1:63,922,115 | 578,870 |
| Italy | 12 | 1:5,096,391 | 108,968 |
| Norway | 12 | 1:428,524 | 37,411 |
| Bermuda | 10 | 1:6,528 | 1,005 |
| China | 10 | 1:136,732,157 | 7,199 |
| Nicaragua | 9 | 1:669,010 | 4,135 |
| Peru | 9 | 1:3,531,569 | 31,288 |
| El Salvador | 8 | 1:792,986 | 3,584 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Latvia | 7 | 1:292,864 | 24,791 |
| Israel | 6 | 1:1,426,272 | 75,466 |
| Venezuela | 6 | 1:5,034,013 | 43,431 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 1:3,536,499 | 118,599 |
| Azerbaijan | 4 | 1:2,412,280 | 25,948 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Turkey | 4 | 1:19,455,356 | 155,681 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1:7,732,286 | 43,643 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Cyprus | 3 | 1:294,959 | 8,690 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 1:2,445,161 | 9,595 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Anguilla | 2 | 1:6,718 | 471 |
| Bahamas | 2 | 1:195,876 | 1,708 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Hungary | 2 | 1:4,908,138 | 64,617 |
| Panama | 2 | 1:1,956,129 | 15,285 |
| Transnistria | 2 | 1:237,350 | 16,204 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 1:681,988 | 17,017 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Cook Islands | 1 | 1:18,179 | 1,485 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Greenland | 1 | 1:56,379 | 1,133 |
| Grenada | 1 | 1:108,535 | 1,793 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1:5,489,112 | 11,427 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 36 | 1:123,052 | 7,230 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 5,097 | 1:4,782 | 717 |
| Scotland | 258 | 1:14,509 | 1,642 |
| Wales | 24 | 1:65,351 | 3,160 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6,197 | 1:8,104 | 1,038 |
Flint (2,963) may also be a first name.
Flint Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Flint.' 'In Domesday we have in Suffolk an Alwin Flint' (Lower, Patronymica Britannica). Mr. Lower further says, 'Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors had a subordinate deity whom they named Flint, and whose idol was an actual flint-stone of large size. The name of the god would readily become the appellation of a man' (ibid). The compound Flinthard, manifestly an early personal name, is found in the Hundred Rolls.
Jacobus Flinthard, Warwickshire 1273. Hundred Rolls.
John Flinchard, Essex, ibid.
John Flint, or Fleynt, Buckinghamshire, ibid.
Sivardus Flynt, 21 Richard II: Furness Coucher Book.
Willelmus Flynt, walker, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Flint is a common surname in the Poll Tax of 1379 (Yorks). I only furnish one instance. The name is scattered hither and thither without prefix. There can be no doubt it was a personal name. Steel (which see) enjoyed a similar popularity; compare the German Flindt.
Robert Flint, wobster in Aytoun, 1628 (Lauder). John fflint was warded in the Canongate Tolbooth, Edinburgh, 1683 (BOEC., VIII, p. 153), and David Flint was dean of guild in Aberdeen, 1752 (Guildry, p. 203). Bardsley says the surname is common in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Not likely, I think, to be local from Flint in Wales, although J. de Flint appears in records of Carnarvon, 1352. Aluuin Flint was an under-tenant in Suffolk, England, in 1086 (Evans, p. 89), and Gottschald (Deutsche Namenkunde) has Flinsch, from MHG. vlins 'Kiesel. Feuerstein.'.
(Latin) belonging to Flint = the Stream [anciently Castellum apud Fluent-um; later apud le Flynt, ‘on the Stream’] (English or Scandinavian) a pers. name from the mineral [Middle English Old English flint = Scandinavian flint, flint, rock]
(English) Descendant of Flint (rock or flint); one who came from Flint, a town and county in Wales.
Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors had a subordinate deity whom they named Flint, and whose idol was an actual flint-stone of large size. The name of the god would readily become the appellation of a man, and that would in time become hereditary as a surname. Such it had become, without any prefix, at the date of the H.R., and even in Domesday we have in Suffolk an Alwin Flint. The town of Flint, in North Wales, may however have a claim to its origin.
Local. Derived from a market town of that name, near the sea, in Flintshire, Wales, which gives name to the county.
From the Danish, Flindt, Flint; a personal name.
Flint Demographics
Average Flint Salary in
United States
$43,545 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Flint Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Flint Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Flint (Hindi: फिलिंट, Marathi: ीन्ट, Russian: Флинт) is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Flint? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 14,591st most frequently occurring last name on earth It is held by around 1 in 190,868 people. The surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 56 percent of Flint reside; 56 percent reside in North America and 56 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 133,143rd most common given name globally, borne by 2,963 people.
The last name is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 20,040 people, or 1 in 18,087. In The United States Flint is primarily concentrated in: California, where 10 percent live, New York, where 8 percent live and Texas, where 6 percent live. Aside from The United States this surname exists in 103 countries. It is also found in England, where 24 percent live and Australia, where 8 percent live.
Flint Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Flint has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 323 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 183 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 116 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 683 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it fell 17 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Flint Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the Flint last name is chiefly Anglican (67%) in Ireland, Orthodox (88%) in Russia, Orthodox (100%) in Belarus and Orthodox (100%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Flint last name are 13.64% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 60.41% registered with the political party.
The amount Flint earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 27.62% less than the national average, earning 250,479 kr per year; in Peru they earn 41.01% more than the national average, earning S/. 27,335 per year; in South Africa they earn 93.68% more than the national average, earning R 460,248 per year; in United States they earn 0.92% more than the national average, earning $43,545 USD per year and in Canada they earn 6.92% more than the national average, earning $53,120 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Flint Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Flint in the Hindi language | ||
| फिलिंट | philinta | - |
| Flint in the Marathi language | ||
| ीन्ट | inta | - |
| Flint in the Russian language | ||
| Флинт | flint | - |
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Flint Reference & Research
Flint DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.
Flynn-Lynn-Flinn-Lin DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.
Flint FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
Flynn-Lynn-Flinn-Lin FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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