How to count number of occurrences of repeated names in an array of objects in JavaScript ?

Given an array of objects and the task is to find the occurrences of a given key according to its value.

Example:

Input : arr = [
   {
      employeeName: "Ram",
      employeeId: 23
   },
   {
      employeeName: "Shyam",
      employeeId: 24
   },
   {
      employeeName: "Ram",
      employeeId: 21
   },
   {
      employeeName: "Ram",
      employeeId: 25
   },
   {
      employeeName: "Kisan",
      employeeId: 22
   },
   {
      employeeName: "Shyam",
      employeeId: 20
   }
]

key = "employeeName"

Output: [
    {employeeName: "Ram", occurrences: 3},
    {employeeName: "Shyam", occurrences: 2},
    {employeeName: "Kisan", occurrences:  1}
] 

Approach: In this approach, we follow the steps below.

• Create an empty output array.
• Using the forEach iterate the input array.
• Check if the output array contains any object which contains the provided key’s value
• If not, then create a new object and initialize the object with the key(the provided key name) set to value (the key’s value of the object of the present iteration) and occurrence set to value 1
• If yes, then iterate the output array and search if the key of the present iteration is equal to the key of the input array iteration then increase the occurrence to 1.

Example:

Javascript

<script>
    function findOcc(arr, key){
      let arr2 = [];

      arr.forEach((x)=>{

        // Checking if there is any object in arr2
        // which contains the key value
         if(arr2.some((val)=>{ return val[key] == x[key] })){

           // If yes! then increase the occurrence by 1
           arr2.forEach((k)=>{
             if(k[key] === x[key]){
               k["occurrence"]++
             }
          })

         }else{
           // If not! Then create a new object initialize
           // it with the present iteration key's value and
           // set the occurrence to 1
           let a = {}
           a[key] = x[key]
           a["occurrence"] = 1
           arr2.push(a);
         }
      })

      return arr2
    }


    let arr = [
       {
          employeeName: "Ram",
          employeeId: 23
       },
       {
          employeeName: "Shyam",
          employeeId: 24
       },
       {
          employeeName: "Ram",
          employeeId: 21
       },
       {
          employeeName: "Ram",
          employeeId: 25
       },
       {
          employeeName: "Kisan",
          employeeId: 22
       },
       {
          employeeName: "Shyam",
          employeeId: 20
       }
    ]

    let key = "employeeName"
    console.log(findOcc(arr, key))
</script>

Output:

[
   {
      employeeName: "Ram",
      occurrence: 3
   }, 
   {
      employeeName: "Shyam",
     occurrence: 2
   }, 
   {
    employeeName: "Kisan",
    occurrence: 1
   }
]