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council Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a wise or thoughtful man, from Anglo-Norman French counseil ‘consultation’, ‘deliberation’, also ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ (Latin consilium, from consulere ‘to consult’). This form was probably influenced by the similar meaning of Anglo-Norman French councile ‘council’, ‘assembly’ (Latin concilium ‘assembly’, from the archaic verb concalere ‘to call together’, ‘to summon’), and it may also have been an occupational name for a member of a royal council or, more probably, a manorial council.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Künzel (see Kuenzel).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of council Families in the US in 1920
Number of council families
 80-157
 27-79		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Arthur Council and James Council Ima_Searching 0
Homer E COUNCIL obit 1974 OK Obits101 0
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Hodges Council lineage to IL... SusanDavis65 28
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Lucy Council in Granger, TX 1919 drbrownlee 0
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Councils in Michigan David Conklin 2
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