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Bishop

in Maine

There are 900 people with the last name "Bishop" in Maine.

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Ranking in Maine

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Bishop 175
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  1. is 171st most common Cox
  2. is 172nd most common Strout
  3. is 173rd most common Hughes
  4. is 174th most common Sprague
  5. is 175th most common Bishop
  6. is 176th most common Blake
  7. is 177th most common Marshall
  8. is 178th most common Rice
  9. is 179th most common Webber

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

John, David, James, Michael, Mary, Robert, William, Peter, Barbara

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 Maine

Since June 2009
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John Bishop, ME (9 searches)
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