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Bishop

in the US

There are 93,541 people with the last name "Bishop" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Bishop 224
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  1. is 220th most common Carr
  2. is 221st most common Romero
  3. is 222nd most common Jacobs
  4. is 223rd most common Jimenez
  5. is 224th most common Bishop
  6. is 225th most common Austin
  7. is 226th most common Lawson
  8. is 227th most common Gilbert
  9. is 228th most common Jensen

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bishop

James, Robert, John, David, William, Michael, Richard, Charles, Mary, 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 the US

Since June 2009
37,414

Most Popular Search

James Bishop (900 searches)
Source: Current searches and listings for US adults on WhitePages. (nv2)

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