How rare is the name Bishop?

4,270 people in the United States have the first name Bishop, about 1 in 70,733. It ranks #4,399 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

BISHOP

#4,399

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,270
About
1 in 70,733
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,270 people named Bishop, 40.9% reported their origin as White, 31% as Black and 12.9% as two or more races. 97% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Bishop peaked in 2021, when 237 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2021
Births that year
237
In 2025*
180 ▼24%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,091 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Bishop by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #1,313. The largest share of babies named Bishop, 37.2%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#1,31393
1890s#1,532110
1900s#1,817111
1910s#2,208274
1920s#2,595313
1930s#3,223187
1940s#3,384200
1950s#4,278173
1960s#6,341104
1970s#8,48396
1980s#9,913102
1990s#3,214756
2000s#2,5991,422
2010s#2,2821,905
2020s#2,1861,245
Before 19013.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–279%
Silent Generation 1928–454.9%
Baby boom 1946–644.5%
Generation X 1965–802.1%
Millennials 1981–966.8%
Generation Z 1997–1232.5%
2013 and later37.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Bishop is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bishop has been most common in Georgia (2.8×), Texas (2.3×), and Oklahoma (2×), and least common in Illinois (0.26×).

3,555 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Bishop

1 other first name also has 4,270 people.

#4,399 Lyra · 4,270

Either side of Bishop

#4,396 Manoj · 4,272#4,396 Shu · 4,272#4,399 Lyra · 4,270#4,401 Narciso · 4,269

Also a last name

As a last name, Bishop ranks #272 of 156,621, with 112,014 people. See Bishop as a last name

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