  We use the CO band at 2.3 micron to constrain the populations of young stars
in the central regions of Seyfert galaxies. We report new CO band spectroscopy
of 46 Seyfert galaxies. In most cases, the observed CO indices appear diluted
by the presence of a non-stellar component (most likely, warm dust surrounding
the active nucleus). We used JHKL aperture photometry to estimate the
non-stellar contribution at 2.3 micron. We successfully corrected the CO band
for the dilution for 16 galaxies which were not dominated by the non-stellar
component. Comparing with CO indices measured in elliptical and purely
starbursting galaxies, we find no evidence for strong starbursts in the
majority of these galaxies.
