I’ve always been fascinated by churches with the names like ‘First United Methodist Church”, “Second United Methodist Church”, and so on. What makes the first different from the second? What about the “Last United Methodist Church”? Are they the end all be all of United Methodist Churches?

So in the spirit of xkcd I turned to Google to compare the number of search results returned for each church name. And so I present to you my completely unscientific results.

The Baptists have the largest web presence followed up by the United Methodist Church. Overall the Anglican’s and the United Church are the least represented.

And here’s to you the “Twelfth Baptist Church” in Boston, because after all, the first eleven just couldn’t get it right 🙂