# How to get Distinct results using Search API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 16, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215 "2023-06-16T11:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![asimelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@asimelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asimelastic)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215/1 "2023-06-16T11:56:00Z")

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I have a "customer" index with fields "FirstName" and "LastName".

My index contains data as follows:  
First Name | LastName  
Richard | Lockwood  
Richard | Lockwood 2  
Richard | Lockwood 3  
Richard | Lockwood 4  
Richard | Lockwood 5  
Richard | Lockwood 6

[https://192.1.2.3:9200/customer/\_search?pretty&q=FirstName:Richard](https://192.1.2.3:9200/customer/_search?pretty&q=FirstName:Richard)

Will return 6 records, I want to return distinct records based on FirstName, which will return only one record. How can I do this?

Advance thanks for the response!

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**Author:** ![DineshNaik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dineshnaik/32/89308_2.png) [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215/2 "2023-06-19T21:09:25Z")

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Are they all not distinct?  
If you want only one record then probably you need to also search for last name along with first name .

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**Author:** ![asimelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@asimelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asimelastic)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215/3 "2023-06-20T07:04:34Z")

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@DineshNaik Thank you so much for the reply.

I have found the solution and correct approach to achieve this is using aggregations

> **[Aggregations | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.8\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations.html)**

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215/4 "2023-06-20T08:52:28Z")

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In future please don't open multiple topics on the same question @asimelastic 🙂

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**Author:** ![asimelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@asimelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asimelastic)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215/5 "2023-06-21T07:38:07Z")

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@warkolm Yep, sure. Actually I was not sure about the category that is why posted same question in multiple categories.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-distinct-results-using-search-api/336215/6 "2023-07-19T07:38:51Z")

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