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Council

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Council has been given to 263 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Council, 1954

1 in 497,000

Council over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Council: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Council means

Council is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Council is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 263 boys were recorded with the name Council between 1904 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1917; its best national rank was #989 in 1904.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Council?

Council had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1954
1 in 497,000
8 of 3,979,464 births
Among boys only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1954
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
344,795 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Council sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1954 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 344,795 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Council. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Councils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Council was born before 1928 — so the typical Council is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
25
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (74).

Is Council rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (12)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#989
1904

Council by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#989
1904
Peak year
1917
12 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1954
All-time count
263
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Council

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Council

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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