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Bishop

in Mississippi

There are 1,957 people with the last name "Bishop" in Mississippi.

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Ranking in Mississippi

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Bishop 150
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  1. is 146th most common Gardner
  2. is 147th most common Perkins
  3. is 148th most common Murphy
  4. is 149th most common Palmer
  5. is 150th most common Bishop
  6. is 151st most common Wade
  7. is 152nd most common Armstrong
  8. is 153rd most common Lindsey
  9. is 154th most common Banks

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

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

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 Mississippi

Since June 2009
634

Most Popular Search

James Bishop, MS (9 searches)
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