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Bishop

in New Mexico

There are 477 people with the last name "Bishop" in New Mexico.

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Ranking in New Mexico

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Bishop 332
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  1. is 328th most common May
  2. is 329th most common Garrett
  3. is 330th most common Lozano
  4. is 331st most common Davidson
  5. is 332nd most common Bishop
  6. is 333rd most common Carr
  7. is 334th most common Freeman
  8. is 335th most common Ochoa
  9. is 336th most common Mascarenas

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

Michael, Steven, William, David, Mark, Mary, Robert, Bill, Dorothy

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 Mexico

Since May 2009
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Michael Bishop, NM (9 searches)
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