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Bishop

in New Hampshire

There are 592 people with the last name "Bishop" in New Hampshire.

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Ranking in New Hampshire

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Bishop 203
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  1. is 199th most common Gardner
  2. is 200th most common Abbott
  3. is 201st most common Cunningham
  4. is 202nd most common Carroll
  5. is 203rd most common Bishop
  6. is 204th most common Warren
  7. is 205th most common George
  8. is 206th most common Cormier
  9. is 207th most common Foley

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

David, John, Robert, James, Barbara, Christopher, Mark, Mary, Nancy

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 New Hampshire

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David Bishop, NH (9 searches)
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