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Bishop

#1,188 in 2025Boys' name

English word name: bishop

Bishop has been given to 7,091 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,188 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 222 recorded.

Babies named Bishop, 2025

1 in 19,300

Bishop over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bishop: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: bishop

surname transfer

What Bishop means

Bishop takes the English word bishop into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Bishop is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Bishop is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bishop is pronounced /ˈbɪʃəp/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,980 boys were recorded with the name Bishop between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 222 in 2021; its best national rank was #416 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #979 in 2020 to #1,188 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #991 in 2015 to #1,188 in 2025.

In the United States, 111 girls were recorded with the name Bishop between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,754 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,276 in 2020 to #11,102 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bishop?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,300
172 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,930
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,188
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,361 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bishop sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,361 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bishop. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bishops were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bishop was born before 2007 — so the typical Bishop is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,692
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (1,869).

Is Bishop rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−209
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−197
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.5%
Peak was 2021 (222)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#416
1890

Where Bishop is used

Across 2016–2025, Bishop was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 9,118 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 2,857
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 4,762
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 5,556
  4. 4Indiana1 in 5,882
  5. 5Georgia1 in 6,250
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 6,250
  7. 7Washington1 in 6,667
  8. 8Ohio1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Bishop around the world

Where Bishop ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Bishop

People whose public names include Bishop, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bishop by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,188
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 209
Best rank ever
#416
1890
Peak year
2021
222 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,980
Count in 2025
172

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,102
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,826
Best rank ever
#6,754
2019
Peak year
2019
17 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
111
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Bishop

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Bishop

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bishop, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Bishop

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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