# Bishop (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bishop/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbɪʃəp/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Bishopp |
| US babies named this | 7,091 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,980 / 111 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From bishop.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | 16,139 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,426 |
| 2018 | 13 | 8,231 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6,758 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,280 |
| 2021 | 15 | 7,320 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,117 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,454 |
| 2024 | 10 | 9,669 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,106 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 163 | 1,118 |
| 2012 | 185 | 1,040 |
| 2013 | 158 | 1,144 |
| 2014 | 189 | 1,052 |
| 2015 | 208 | 991 |
| 2016 | 189 | 1,045 |
| 2017 | 206 | 990 |
| 2018 | 210 | 986 |
| 2019 | 198 | 1,041 |
| 2020 | 218 | 979 |
| 2021 | 222 | 988 |
| 2022 | 216 | 1,026 |
| 2023 | 174 | 1,177 |
| 2024 | 173 | 1,189 |
| 2025 | 172 | 1,188 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 畢曉普 /毕晓普
- French: Lévesque
- Spanish: Obispo

## People named Bishop

- Bishop W. Perkins, American politician (1841-1894)
- Joseph Keller, American mathematician (1923–2016)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.