Council
Council is a boy's name that peaked in 1917, when it was the 2,280th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1954. About 40 Councils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Council
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 263
- Estimated living today
- 40
- Median age today
- 77
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 2,280th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1904
How old the living Councils are
born that year still alive today
Of the 263 babies given the name since 1904, about 40 are alive — 17 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1917
The most popular boys’ names the year Council peaked:
Related names
Council against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.