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Bishop

in Washington

There are 2,177 people with the last name "Bishop" in Washington.

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Ranking in Washington

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Bishop 208
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  1. is 204th most common Reyes
  2. is 205th most common Owens
  3. is 206th most common Benson
  4. is 207th most common Jacobson
  5. is 208th most common Bishop
  6. is 209th most common Ray
  7. is 210th most common Obrien
  8. is 211th most common Grant
  9. is 212th most common Schneider

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

David, John, Michael, Robert, James, William, Paul, Ronald, Linda, Donald

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 Washington

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David Bishop, WA (9 searches)
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