Bishop

At the 2020 census, 112,014 Americans bore the surname Bishop — 272nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,668.

By the numbers

People: 112,014
Rank: 272nd
How common: 1 in 2,668
Per 100,000: 37.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bishop described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)American poet
J. Michael Bishop (1936–2026)American immunologist and microbiologist who specialized in cancer research
Julie Bishop (born 1956)Australian politician
Kelly Bishop (born 1944)American actress
Maurice Bishop (1944–1983)Revolutionary and Grenada 's second Prime Minister
Joey Bishop (1918–2007)American entertainer
Billy Bishop (1894–1956)Canadian aviator and author
Ann Bishop (1899–1990)British biologist

People named Bishop with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bishop

Also a first name

Bishop has been given to 7,091 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.