Best way to check if a row matching a condition exists at least once

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Best way to test if a row exists in a MySQL table

I need to determine if a row exists at least once in table, where for example name = 'Jon'.

Is there is better solution than this?

 SELECT name FROM mytable
 WHERE name = 'Jon'
 LIMIT 1

and after receive count using num_rows.