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Bishop

in Delaware

There are 291 people with the last name "Bishop" in Delaware.

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Ranking in Delaware

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Bishop 264
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  1. is 260th most common Warner
  2. is 261st most common Caldwell
  3. is 262nd most common Fitzgerald
  4. is 263rd most common May
  5. is 264th most common Bishop
  6. is 265th most common Fields
  7. is 266th most common Hearn
  8. is 267th most common Howell
  9. is 268th most common Reid

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bish, Bishoff, Bishara, Bisher, Bishopp, Bishay, Bishir, Bishel, Bisharat, Bishaw

Most Common First Names for Bishop

Robert, William, Mary, John, Charles, David, Joseph, Michael, Patricia, Paul

Meaning & History

English: from Middle English biscop, Old English bisc(e)op ‘bishop’, which comes via Latin from Greek episkopos ‘overseer’. The Greek word was adopted early in the Christian era as a title for an overseer of a local community of Christians, and has yielded cognates in every European language: French évêque, Italian vescovo, Spanish obispo, Russian yepiskop, German Bischof, etc. The English surname has probably absorbed at least some of these continental European cognates. The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them service in the household of a bishop, supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on St. Nicholas's Day.

Recent Searches for "Bishop" in Delaware

Since May 2009
153

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Robert Bishop, DE (6 searches)
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