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Base on your data sample try the following one-liner
awk 'END{for(l=1;l++<NF;)print o[l]}{for(l=I;l++<NF;){o[l]=((o[l])?o[l]FS:S)$l}}' file


Since this is your first post please read and...

I'm not sure what you mean by:
If you're saying that a single "name" can appear more than once in your input file and that when that happens the input lines need to be combined somehow, you need to...