Use a pivot table. Then it won't matter how many different names there all.
It will count them all.

Make the name field both a row field and a data field. Ensure that the data
field(s) setting is set to count.

Excels help is pretty good on pivot tables as well.

Hope this is a start.

Bill Horton

"DTTODGG" wrote:

Thank-you will, but, this would take 50+ IFs?
Is there a way to look for all the names and then count them?
Thanks

"will A" wrote:

=countif(a1:a2000,"sally")

"DTTODGG" wrote:

Hello-
I read thru many posts, but none have the same question - I don't think.

I have a column with names in it, maybe 50 unique names, but the column is
2000 cells long. I would like to know how many times each of the names is in
the column.

Sally = 25
Tom = 333
Bob = 2
etc.

Thank you so much!