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Bishop

in Kentucky

There are 2,685 people with the last name "Bishop" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Bishop 144
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  1. is 140th most common Mccoy
  2. is 141st most common Boyd
  3. is 142nd most common Hardin
  4. is 143rd most common Kelly
  5. is 144th most common Bishop
  6. is 145th most common Hale
  7. is 146th most common Gregory
  8. is 147th most common Shepherd
  9. is 148th most common Phelps

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

Robert, James, William, John, David, Michael, Mary, Charles, Barbara, Jerry

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 Kentucky

Since June 2009
1,209

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Robert Bishop, KY (9 searches)
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