How can I remove a word from an array?

This is what I have:

xA=[0 4 2 1]; wA=struct('name',{'person1' 'person2' 'person3' 'person4'},'num',num2cell(xA)); peopleA={wA.name}; numA=[wA.num]; [idxA,idxA]=max(numA); primeroA=peopleA{idxA} numAA=numA(numA~=max(numA)); [idxxA,idxxA]=max(numAA); segundoA=peopleA{idxxA}

I want to remove the maximum of the word, that is, the word contained in primeroA, in order to be able to calculate the second maximum without the words being rearrenged or altered.

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

xA=[0 4 2 1];
name={'person1'  'person2' 'person3' 'person4'};
[a,b] = unique(xA);
out = name(b(end-1));

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

xA=[0 4 2 1];
wA=struct('name',{'person1'  'person2' 'person3' 'person4'},'num',num2cell(xA));
peopleA={wA.name};
numA=[wA.num];
[idxA,idxA]=sort(numA,'descend');
primeroA=peopleA{idxA(1)}
segundoA=peopleA{idxA(2)}
terceroA=peopleA{idxA(3)}

[Marcela Ruiz de Chávez]

Thank you soo much!! You are a genius! I'm sorry..I accepted the wrong answer and I don't know how to unaccept it. But thank you very much!