How to get the number of times a piece if word is inside a particular column in pandas?

Question

I\'ll try to use a simple example to describe my problem.

I have a csv file with many columns. One of this columns\' header is \"names\".

In this column \"n

Answer 1

Using str.contains

df.Name.str.contains('John').sum()
Out[246]: 3

Or we using list and map with in

sum(list(map(lambda x : 'John' in x,df.Name)))
Out[248]: 3