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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech and Slovak : from a word meaning ‘bishop’, a local form of German Bischof, Greek episkopos ‘overseer’ (see Bishop). This was either an occupational name for someone in the service of a bishop or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bishop in some way.

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