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Bishop

in Pennsylvania

There are 2,892 people with the last name "Bishop" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Bishop 283
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  1. is 279th most common Steele
  2. is 280th most common Conrad
  3. is 281st most common Harper
  4. is 282nd most common Newman
  5. is 283rd most common Bishop
  6. is 284th most common Nichols
  7. is 285th most common Hopkins
  8. is 286th most common Lloyd
  9. is 287th most common Berger

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

Robert, James, William, John, David, Michael, Richard, George, Donald, 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 Pennsylvania

Since June 2009
1,079

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Robert Bishop, PA (9 searches)
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