# Terms query return distinct field results **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-return-distinct-field-results/209950 **Category:** Elasticsearch **Created:** [November 29, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-return-distinct-field-results/209950 "2019-11-29T09:56:18Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![hackerwin7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hackerwin7/32/43223_2.png) [@hackerwin7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hackerwin7) #### Post date: [November 29, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-return-distinct-field-results/209950/6 "2019-11-29T10:32:46Z")
> [@How Can I Perform a Distinct Query?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-perform-a-distinct-query/12539): > > Hi Guys, I'm a new ElasticSearch user, and need some help selecting only documents with a distinct field. I've got an index of documents which look something like the following: { "last\_name": "Degges", "first\_name": "Randall", "state": "CA", } I'm trying to return a list of de-duplicated documents which contain the same last name. For instance -- if I had three documents, two with a "last\_name" field of "Degges" and one with a "last\_name" field of "Perez", I'd want to return only tw… similar to this topic, we just want to return a unique list of documents in terms query --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/terms-query-return-distinct-field-results/209950)._