How rare is the name Clint?

31,154 people in the United States have the first name Clint, about 1 in 9,695. It ranks #1,228 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CLINT

#1,228

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
31,154
About
1 in 9,695
This common or more
72.8%
Who bears it

Of the 31,154 people named Clint, 85% reported their origin as White, 5.2% as Black and 3.7% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Clint peaked in 1980, when 1,283 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1980
Births that year
1,283
In 2025*
58 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 32,785 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Clint by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #522. The largest share of babies named Clint, 38.9%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#923174
1890s#1,316145
1900s#1,379182
1910s#1,707428
1920s#1,909531
1930s#1,939450
1940s#1,757665
1950s#1,1212,137
1960s#8174,507
1970s#5229,116
1980s#6217,510
1990s#1,1023,995
2000s#2,8301,259
2010s#3,2131,165
2020s#3,904521
Before 19011%
Greatest Generation 1901–273.1%
Silent Generation 1928–452.6%
Baby boom 1946–6414.2%
Generation X 1965–8038.9%
Millennials 1981–9629.3%
Generation Z 1997–126.7%
2013 and later4.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Clint is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Clint has been most common in Utah (3.6×), Louisiana (2.5×), and Oklahoma (2.4×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.09×).

27,577 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Clint, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Clint ranks #60,024 of 156,621, with 363 people. See Clint as a last name

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