 These church bodies became commonly known as "Dunkards" or "Dunkers", and more formally as German Baptist Brethren.The Church of the Brethren represents the largest denomination descended from the Schwarzenau Brethren, and adopted this name in 1908.The denomination had 122,810 members as of June 2010 and 1,047 congregations in the United States and Puerto Rico as of August 2010.