Flynt
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- FLINT
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Flynt is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “flint stone”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Flynt mean?
English: spelling of Flint
“flint stone”
A respelling of Flint, the hard grey stone used for early tools and for striking sparks.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Flynt a girl's or a boy's name?
Flynt is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Flynt in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Flynt, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1984.
Half of all the boys named Flynt in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 67 boys in the US were given Flynt or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,863, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
- Flint 61
- Flynt 6
Flynt in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,311 |
Names like Flynt
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finn, Finnegan, Ridge, Deacon, Cannon, Kayden, Cassian, Briggs, Declan, Raiden, Ronan, Bronx
Other spellings of Flynt
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Flynt: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/flynt, updated 20 October 2026.