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Origin Of The Surname Bishop
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Meaning Of The Surname Bishop
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Bishop
This surname has its roots in ancient Greek and comes from the Greek word ‘episkopos’. This word is made up of the two separate elements ‘epi’ which means over and ‘skopein’ which means to look. Christians adopted this name for the heads of their local communities and so this was often given as an occupational name. |
Bishop Statistics
Bishop is the number 270 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 31,479 share the surname Bishop in the UK.
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