select unique values from a column order by count

Question

I use this code:

$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT(name) AS name FROM Tags  ORDER BY name DESC"

But how can I ORDER it via count of values?

something like this:

$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT(name) AS name FROM Tags  ORDER BY count(name) DESC"

Answer 1

SQL Fiddle

SELECT count(name) as count, name
FROM Tags
GROUP BY name
ORDER BY count DESC;