Last name: FLINT
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FLINT : This last name is indexed 148,299 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FLINT : 1: English and German: topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint (from Old and Middle English Low German flint) or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual metaphorically as hard as flint.2: Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.3: Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.
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