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Bishop Names for Boys

There are 61 Bishop names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Bishop names 1 to 20. Bryce was the most popular among these names in 2008 with a rank of #116 and a usage of 0.1682%. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the English Chad, the English, Italian, and Spanish Alfonso, the English Blaine, and the English and German name, Conrad. The unusual Bishop names are Bishop (English), Albin (Czech, English, German, Polish, Scandinavian, Slavic, and Russian), Amando (Italian), Ambrose (Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian), Archibald (English and Scottish), Arnold (English and German), Basil (English and German), Blaise (English and French), Burkhard (German), Cassian (English), Charalampos (Greek), Conan (English), Corentin (Breton, French, and German), Corsin (Rhaeto-Romanic), and Cyprian (English and German).

Bishop names are fairly popular baby names for boys. The names rose in popularity from the 1960s up to the 1970s. At the height of their usage in 1979, 1.969% of baby boys were given Bishop names. There were 13 Bishop names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Bishop names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2008, 9 Bishop names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 0.883%. Within all Bishop names, the English and French Nicholas was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #29 and a usage of 0.5752%.

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Bishop Popularity Trend of Bishop
from 1900 to 2008. bishop ...The boy name Bishop is pronounced as BIHSHahP ... Bishop's meaning is bishop. ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Albin Popularity Trend of Albin
from 1900 to 2008. white; blond, fair one; elf friend; noble friend ... French abbot and bishop in Brittany. ...

Alfonso Popularity Trend of Alfonso
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 585 585 noble and ready ... by Saint Alphonsus the bishop of Astorga, and in the ...

Amando lovable ... Amandus, a 5th-century bishop of Bordeaux. ...

Ambrose Popularity Trend of Ambrose
from 1900 to 2008. immortal, divine ... a 4th-century bishop and one of the doctors ...

Archibald Popularity Trend of Archibald
from 1900 to 2008. truly brave ... meaning 'servant of the bishop' ... royal family who became Bishop of London ...

Arnold Popularity Trend of Arnold
from 1900 to 2008. eagle ruler ... an 11th-century French bishop and patron saint of ...

Basil Popularity Trend of Basil
from 1900 to 2008. royal, kingly; valiant, ... well known 4th-century bishop of Caesarea whose fame ...

Blaine Popularity Trend of Blaine
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 614 614 little yellow one, one who serves Saint Blane ... Saint Blane, a bishop and missionary to the ...

Blaise Popularity Trend of Blaise
from 1900 to 2008. lisping, stammering; ... venerated physician and bishop of Sebaste in Armenia ...

Bryce Popularity Trend of Bryce
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 116 116 speckled ... of Tours was the fourth bishop of Tours who succeeded ...

Burkhard protection, fortress, ... he became the first bishop of Würzburg and founded ...

Cassian empty, vain ... Cassian of Imola, a Bishop of Brescia and the ...

Chad Popularity Trend of Chad
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 454 454 battle, warrior; Chad's ... 7th-century Saint Chad, Bishop of York ...

Charalampos to shine from joy ... a Christian bishop and martyr in ...

Conan dog; great ... Saint Conan, who was a bishop of the Isle of Man ...

Conrad Popularity Trend of Conrad
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 758 758 bold counsel ... 10th-century saint and bishop of Constance in ...

Corentin hurricane ... Corentin, the first bishop of Quimper in ...

Corsin Corsini (1302-1373), bishop of Fiesole in the ...

Cyprian man from Cyprus ... from Antiochia, a bishop of Carthage and one of ...


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