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Bishop

in Maryland

There are 1,719 people with the last name "Bishop" in Maryland.

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Ranking in Maryland

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Bishop 249
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  1. is 245th most common Neal
  2. is 246th most common Webster
  3. is 247th most common Frazier
  4. is 248th most common Kline
  5. is 249th most common Bishop
  6. is 250th most common Chapman
  7. is 251st most common Stevenson
  8. is 252nd most common Chambers
  9. is 253rd most common Keller

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

James, William, John, Robert, Richard, Mary, Michael, David, Joseph, Deborah

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 Maryland

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James Bishop, MD (9 searches)
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