Counting Number of Instances with Conditions

I'm hoping you guys can help me out again, youve been great in the past..

I have a spreadsheet with a list of hundreds of names (in one column), and their position (in another column). What I need to do, is count the number of instances each name appears in the spreadsheet, while at the same time, excluding 9 specific names that all have the same position. So for example,

Name / Position
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
A 1
E 4
F 5
A 1
B 2

So lets say the position I want to exclude is position #4

The outcome I would like is:

Name / Number of Times Appeared
A 3
B 2
C 1
F 1

Any help would be really appreciated...

thx!

Hi,
Here is one way:

=IF(B1=4,"",A1&COUNTIF($A$1:$A$9,A1))

and drag down

Hope this Helps

Regards Howard