Meaning and background
The story behind Flint
Flint has several surname routes. English and German histories can refer to a flint outcrop or a toughness-based nickname; a Welsh route comes from the place Flint, while the Jewish Ashkenazic account uses different German vocabulary. Those alternatives should remain separate. A dog called Flint may evoke stone as a personal association, but the reference does not justify making that one image the explanation for every family with the surname.
- Origin
- Surname with English/German topographic or nickname, Welsh habitational and Jewish Ashkenazic origins. Source
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