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<?php $data = array( array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "A"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "A"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "A"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "A"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "A"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "B"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "B"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "B"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "C"), array( "name" => "SomeName", "type" => "C") ); // split data into arrays of distinct type $buckets = array_reduce($data, function($result, $item) { $type = $item["type"]; if (!isset($result[$type])) { $result[$type] = []; } array_push($result[$type], $item); return $result; }, []); // sort buckets by size usort($buckets, function($a, $b) { return count($b) - count($a); }); // merge buckets to single array sorted by type // and split to chunks of size of the largest bucket $table = array_chunk(array_merge(...$buckets), count($buckets[0])); // compute final array by merging each column $result = []; foreach (array_keys($table[0]) as $i) { $result = array_merge($result, array_column($table, $i)); } print_r($result);