Count the number of words in a field?

Hi,
I am trying to classify records inside of a view by implementing logic that looks at the name associated with that record. I need to know if the record is an individual or a company. So far I have created a case that looks like this:
CASE WHEN NAME LIKE '%COMP%' THEN 'COMPANY'
WHEN NAME LIKE '%LLC%' THEN 'LLC'
ELSE NULL AS RECORD TYPE
I would like to implement logic into this case to identify individuals. Since most of the names of individuals in my data contain a first name, middle initial, and a last name, I was wondering if it is possible to add logic that can identify this pattern
in my case. Basically I'd like to say if NAME contains a string of any length - a space - a string with one character - a space - and a string of any length, then that record is an individual. Is this possible? Thanks.

Thanks this works. How does the code below work though? I don't see how it is able to differentiate between when the middle string is one character and when the middle string is multiple characters.
LIKE '%[A-Za-z] [A-Za-z] [A-Za-z]%'
the pattern [A-Za-z] means a single occurance of an alphabet so in above case it looks for cases where a single alphabet is preceded and succeded by a space
character which will be true only for the individual names
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