SUMIF with Names?

[KuraiChikara]

Hello, I am looking to perform a SUMIF but with names. For example, say there are different supervisors in column A and I want to find the amount of agents a particular supervisor has listed in column B (without doing a filter).

Say supervisor JOHN CLOUD is in Column A2 and then in random rows after that and he has 12 agents. Those agents are in column B formatted this way: Smith, Jane.

I want to be able to to a SUMIF to look for John the supervisor and pull the total of people under him from column B but I dont know how to SUMIF text.

I used this formula:
=SUMIF(A$2:A$600,A2,B$2:B$600)

But it just results in pulling a zero (0).

 

[AhoyNC]

Try COUNTIF.
Maybe just COUNTIF(A$2:A$600,A2)
which would count how many times John Cloud is in column A.

 

[KuraiChikara]

That works, I was racking my brain on counting column B and matching it to column A's sup but realistically the agent and the supervisor will be on the same row of each other. So if it counts 16 "John Cloud" names, for what I'm working with, that's the same as 16 agents. Thanks!

 

[AhoyNC]

Your welcome. Glad that worked for you. Thanks for the feedback.