Bishop

Popularity Trends

The name Bishop is the #3,277 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,724 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 57.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,443 (68.5% percentile) for all time with 6,631 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,623 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 93 births since 2003.

Bishop has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2003 for girls). Birth data for Bishop is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

The name Bishop has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.

For boys, Bishop reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 23.4% percentile (ranked #690) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 159 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bishop ranks #744 for boys (18.4% percentile) with 94 births per million, which is 59.2% of its peak share of births.

For girls, Bishop reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #933) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bishop ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 55.5% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bishop".

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Key Statistics

Total Births

Peak Births

Peak Year

2019

First Recorded

2003

Peak Percentile

1.3%

Current Percentile

0.4%

Peak Rank

#933

Current Rank

#943

Female statistics

Total Births

6,631

Peak Births

221

Peak Year

2020

First Recorded

1880

Peak Percentile

23.4%

Current Percentile

18.4%

Peak Rank

#690

Current Rank

#744

Male statistics

Names That Sound Similar

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Names with Similar Spellings

These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Bishop", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Bishop.

Names with Correlated Trends

These 12 names have popularity trends that correlate most strongly with the name Bishop's popularity from 1880 to 2023 on a gender-neutral basis. Names may rise and fall in popularity for a variety of reasons, but correlations often reflect either changes in naming fashion or demographic shifts.

The correlation calculations in the table below ignore absolute popularity to show you names that move in similar directions as the name Bishop at the same time. They also correct for changes in the overall birth rate over time. The 0-100% trend values are calculated by dividing each name's gender-neutral births per million by the peak births per million for that name.

The 12 names most strongly correlated to Bishop range from Porter at 85.1% correlation to Solomon at 79.6% correlation, with an average correlation level of 82.2%. The most popular of these 12 most correlated names is Simon with 67.5K births (100% boys) and the least popular is Turner with 9.9K births (96% boys).

Bishop's share of births peaked at 158.7 births per million in 1890 (9.3 for girls in 2019 and 158.7 for boys in 2020). It reached its lowest point of 3.1 births per million (2% of peak) in 1976. In 2023, the most recent period with data, the name Bishop had 99.1 births per million, 62% of its peak popularity.

This chart shows how each name's popularity has changed over time relative to its peak (100%).

Porter

20.7k

85.09% (very strong)

Anderson

33.5k

84.39% (very strong)

Turner

9,927

84.34% (very strong)

Simon

67.5k

84.07% (very strong)

Phoebe

40.1k

83.31% (very strong)

Callie

67.3k

83.12% (very strong)

Leila

53k

82.43% (very strong)

Cyrus

26.6k

80.33% (very strong)

Jasper

58k

80.09% (very strong)

Lucian

13.2k

80.06% (very strong)

Evie

19.7k

79.79% (strong)

Solomon

36.5k

79.59% (strong)

About this table: Correlation values are shown as percentages from 0% to 100%, with each value accompanied by its strength (very weak to very strong). Higher percentages and stronger correlations indicate names that rise and fall together more closely in popularity. The strength labels are color-coded from gray (very weak) to green (very strong). The Trend column visualizes how each name's popularity has changed over time relative to its peak. Absolute correlation values are shown for simplicity (all correlations here are positive). The Total Births column is color-coded by gender distribution - blue shades for predominantly male names and red shades for predominantly female names, with purple hues indicating a more balanced gender distribution.

How to Pronounce Bishop

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bishop. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Bishop is pronounced as BIH-shuhp, which has 2 syllables.

BIH-shuhp

100.0%

BIH-shuhp (2 syllables)

Verified

100.0% confidence

B IH1 SH AH0 P

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B IH1 SH AH0 P) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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