# How to get total term frequency through aggregation in elastic
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-total-term-frequency-through-aggregation-in-elastic/248483
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-total-term-frequency-through-aggregation-in-elastic/248483 "2020-09-14T07:57:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Ubeta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ubeta)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-total-term-frequency-through-aggregation-in-elastic/248483/1 "2020-09-14T07:57:45Z")
Hi!
In a search result, I want to get the total number of times a term has showed in the list of documents returned. By only using term aggregations, I can only get the doc count but what I want is the total number of terms occurred across the entire set.
For example:
```auto
doc1:
Name: David
Tech: A1, A1, B1, B1, C1
doc2:
Name: Josh
Tech: C1, D1, E1
doc3:
Name: David
Tech: A1, D1, F1
```
when I search for 'David' in the field 'Name' I will get normally get my 'Tech' aggregation as:
```auto
A1: 2
B1: 1
C1: 1
D1: 1
F1: 1
```
whereas I want my results to show:
```auto
A1: 3
B1: 2
C1: 1
D1: 1
F1: 1
```
Is there anyway I can do this with aggregations?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-total-term-frequency-through-aggregation-in-elastic/248483/2 "2020-10-12T07:57:58Z")
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