MS Excel count occurrences

Question

I have excel columns as follows:

Name,Name1
Name,Name3
Name1,Name3
Name3,Name4,Name

Now I want a function that will give count of each unique name on all rows. For example output

Name = 3
Name1 = 2
Name3 = 3
Name4 = 1

Answer 1

Step 1: Select the data and use text to columns to split them into seperate columns:

Result:

Step 2

Move your data to 1 single column:

Step 3:

Create a pivot table

Though you could always use a VBA solution.

Answer 2

Assuming the names are spread over three columns, pick a cell and enter:

="Name = " & COUNTIF(A:C,"Name")

and then the same for the other names.