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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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council Family Facts

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.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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COUNCIL Frank C and Lela A t42Moore 0
COUNCIL Drue John Robert 1954-1989 t42Moore 0
COUNCIL Frank C MD 1925-1986 t42Moore 0
Arthur Council and James Council Ima_Searching 3
Ethel or Elsie Mae Council Renay Staton 4
Hodges Council lineage to IL... SusanDavis65 33
Lucy Ann Council NC beanpicker08 3
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Jesse Council, North Carolina Victoria Lawing 1
Council-Nicholson in Currituck Co NC Joelle Garlow 1
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