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Bishop

in Tennessee

There are 3,647 people with the last name "Bishop" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Bishop 160
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  1. is 156th most common Ramsey
  2. is 157th most common Douglas
  3. is 158th most common Black
  4. is 159th most common Sharp
  5. is 160th most common Bishop
  6. is 161st most common Mcdonald
  7. is 162nd most common Porter
  8. is 163rd most common Davidson
  9. is 164th most common Weaver

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

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

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 Tennessee

Since June 2009
1,353

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James Bishop, TN (9 searches)
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