What We Know About the Flindt Surname

Search old registers for Flindt and you will soon meet Flint too.

The name is usually explained as “Hard stone”. Before spelling was fixed, Flint was also written Flindt. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Flynt.

Family crest and blazon

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