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First names of the apostles and the frequency of given first names

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First names of our latter-day apostles and the frequency of each individual name.  The first list is alphabetical by name and includes all 111 apostles of this dispensation.  The second list includes just those names that are used more than once, starting with the most frequently used names.  Click here to see the first and last names of our latter-day apostles, listed on one page.  Interesting notes about the first names are found at the bottom of the first list.

First name   Number with that name
Abraham              2
Adam                 1
Albert               2
Alonzo               1
Alvin                1
Amasa                1
Anthon               1
Anthony              1
Boyd                 1
Brigham              2
Bruce                1
Charles              3    
Dale                 1
Dallin               1
Daniel               1
David                5
Dieter               1
Delbert              1
Erastus              1
Ezra                 2
Francis              1
Franklin             1
Gary                 1
George               6
Gerrit               1
Gordon               1
Harold               1
Heber                2
Henry                2
Howard               1
Hugh                 1
Hyrum                2
James                2
Jedediah             1
Jeffrey              1
John                 7
Joseph               6
Joshua               1
LeGrand              1
Lorenzo              1
Lowell               1
Luke                 1
Lyman                2
Marion               1
Mark                 1
Marriner             1
Marvin               1
Matthew              1
Matthias             1
Melvin               2
Moses                1
Nathan               1
Neal                 1
Neil                 1
Oliver               1
Orson                3
Parley               1
Patrick              1
Quentin              1
Reed                 1
Richard              3
Robert               1
Ronald               1
Rudger               1
Russell              1
Spencer              1
Stephen              1
Sylvester            1
Thomas               2
Ulisses              1
Wilford              1
Willard              1
William              2

Interesting notes:
1. As of December 2023, our apostles are represented by 73 different first names.
2. The most common first name is John (7 apostles), the second most common names are George and Joseph (6 apostles
   for each of those names), and the third most common name is David (5 apostles).
3. The longest first name is Sylvester, and the shortest first names have four letters (John, Reed, Mark, etc.).
4. Only one first name has two sets of repeated letters, that name being Russell (M. Nelson).
5. The two most common first letters for the names are 'A' and 'M', with 8 apostles for each of those first letters.
6. Six letters are not represented as first letters in our apostles' names, those being I, K, V, X, Y, and Z.
7. Two apostles have first names that are pronounced the same but are spelled differently.  Those two are Neal A. 
   Maxwell and Neil L. Andersen.
8. One apostle's name can be made by adding one letter to another apostle's name.  Those two are Anthony W. Ivins
   and Anthon H. Lund.
9. It goes without saying that several of the apostles went by their middle names rather than their first names, 
   but the above information is drawn from first names only.  Some who went by their middle names include M. Russell
   Ballard, D. Todd Christoffersen, and N. Eldon Tanner.

First names found more than once among our latter-day apostles:
• John    -- 7
• Joseph  -- 6
• George  -- 6
• David   -- 5
• Charles -- 3
• Orson   -- 3
• Richard -- 3
• Abraham -- 2
• Albert  -- 2
• Brigham -- 2
• Ezra    -- 2
• Heber   -- 2
• Henry   -- 2
• Hyrum   -- 2
• James   -- 2
• Lyman   -- 2
• Melvin  -- 2
• Thomas  -- 2
• William -- 2

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