The flint Surname

flint Name Meaning and History

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.
Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.
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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flint Family Facts

Distribution of flint Families in the US in 1920

Number of flint families

181-360

61-180

1-60

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 374 - Messages: 1123

Thread	Author	Replies
Elizabeth Flint married 2 Mar 1820 Sherburn in Elmet, Yorkshire	elsinorehs	0
Flint Family Manchester UK	IVPenneyston	2
FLINT SEARCH	catelliott1	4
Flint family (Fredonia, Benjamin, Alexander)	millie31152	0
Flint Family - Wisconsin	pat_Thom	0
flint family	Helen Flint Colegrove	18
Thomas Flint 1500s & 1600s	daxanddin	2
FLINT Sibyl J 1837 1922	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
FLINT Eugene 1861 1920	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
FLINT James E 1826 1890	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0

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