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flint Name Meaning and History

  1. English and German: topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint, Old English, Low German flint, or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual.
  2. Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The flint name in History

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Distribution of flint Families in the US in 1920
Number of flint families
 181-360
 61-180		 1-60
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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