How to find the most common text value in a list in Google Sheets and Excel?

If you have a long list of cells with duplicate values and want to find the most common text value in Google Sheets or Excel, how can you do this without checking each item manually?

Find the most common value in a list in Google Sheets with formula

Find the most common value in a list in Microsoft Excel with Kutools for Excel

Find the most common value in a list in Google Sheets with formula

The following formula can help you to find the most common value in a list, please do as this:

Enter the following formula into a blank cell where you want to output the result, and then press Enter key, the most common value in the list will be displayed at once, see screenshot:

To get the number of times which the most common value appears, you can apply this formula:

Notes:

1. If you want to return the time occurence of each text, please apply the below formula into a blank cell, and then press Enter key to get the result:

2. In the above formulas, A2:A17 is the list of cells that you want to find the most common value from.

Find the most common value in a list in Microsoft Excel with Kutools for Excel

To find the most frequent value in a list in Excel worksheet, the Kutools for Excel’s Find most common value utility can help you without remembering any formulas.

1. Click a blank cell where you want to output the result, and then click Kutools > Formula Helper > Formula Helper, see screenshot:

2. In the Formulas Helper dialog box, do the following operations:

• Select Lookup option from the Formula Type drop down list;
• Then choose Find most common value from the Choose a fromula list box;
• In the right Arguments input section, select a list of cells that you want to extract the most common value beside the Range.

3. And then click Ok button, the most common value has been displayed into the selected cell, see screenshot:

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