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Council vs Courtenay

American parents have registered 1,435 Courtenays since 1880, against 263 Councils. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Council against Courtenay, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Council Courtenay

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 80 years in which either name was published, Courtenay for 50 years and Council for 30 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Council Courtenay
Total US births 2631,435
Most in one year 1278
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 401,300
Median age today 7746
Peak year 19171966
Best rank 2,280th boys1,320th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19041915
Girls / boys 0 / 2631,189 / 246

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Councils alive today are over 77; half the Courtenays are over 46. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Council and Courtenay.