returning a list of unique names

Hi everybody ,
I've just started with Postgres ( and databases in general ) about a week or so ago , so I'm sorry if my question might make me look like ... i'm new

I have read a book on it and searched through a few sites , and there is one feature which I could not find .
I was wondering if such a feature exists or there is a way of achieving this in postgres .

Basically I have a table that say will return 10 names . 4 of these names would be unique and some of them will be repeated more than once within this table ...

I'm searching for a way of listing only the unique names ...

Thanks in advance

SELECT DISTINCT name_column FROM name_table;

thank you , that's exactly what i needed ...