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The FLINT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,683 2268 0.005 54
United States (1880 census) 6,193 986 0.012 124
Change since 1880 +8490 -1282 -0.007 -70
Other Countries
Australia 1,367 1201 0.008 84
United Kingdom 6,366 992 0.014 139
Top States for FLINT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,270 1459 0.007 67
California 1,223 2620 0.004 36
Florida 1,010 2060 0.006 63
Ohio 788 1761 0.007 69
Texas 774 3029 0.004 37
Top States for FLINT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 147 684 0.024 241
West Virginia 325 869 0.018 180
Maine 225 1145 0.018 176
Utah 376 816 0.017 168
New Hampshire 169 1176 0.014 137

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FLINT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FLINT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FLINT in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FLINT by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FLINT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FLINT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FLINT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FLINT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 222 1.51
Mixed Race 207 1.41
Asian/Pacific 59 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 59 0.4
White (Caucasian) 12,757 86.88
Black/African American 1,380 9.4

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FLINT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FLINT in historical publications

(origin: Local) Derived from a market town of that name, near the sea, in Flintshire, Wales, which gives name to the county.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to FLINT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLINT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FLINT

The following words are slight variants of FLINT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.