The Church Almanac is a compilation of a boatload of interesting but not necessarily useful information. For example, I never thought about what the most common first name in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is. Have you? Quoting the 2013, Almanac: “A careful analysis of the top, say, 10 million first names in the Church, revealed a not-too-surprising result among avid first-name watchers. The top first name in the Church is … Maria! “Maria, the identification word for nearly 400,000 individuals, is the most frequent name by a 200,000-name margin over the next top name in the Church. “The second top name is the most frequent male name, Jose. About 100,000 names below that is the next most frequent name, David, that is followed more closely by other male names of Juan, Michael, and Luis. Male, because their contemporary frequency on the female side of things, are by now still named Maria. “Finally we come to