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Bishop

in Ohio

There are 4,261 people with the last name "Bishop" in Ohio.

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Ranking in Ohio

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Bishop 191
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  1. is 187th most common Griffin
  2. is 188th most common Barker
  3. is 189th most common Willis
  4. is 190th most common Burton
  5. is 191st most common Bishop
  6. is 192nd most common Ball
  7. is 193rd most common Carroll
  8. is 194th most common Combs
  9. is 195th most common Dean

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

James, Robert, John, William, David, Richard, Michael, Donald, Mark, Charles

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 Ohio

Since June 2009
1,803

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James Bishop, OH (54 searches)
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