Is there a particular name for the type of structure of this database?
I don't know if there is a name for the structure that you are displaying in Excel, but the reporting layer rarely maps to the best way to store the actual data in a relational manner.

This link discusses database normalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

Given your requirements above, I would use three tables, one for people, one for skills and another to map them together.  The decision about where to store a skill level (for example, Spanish 4) is up to you.  You could either make a seperate skill called "Spanish 4" or store the level information on the PersonSkill table in the example below.

Your reporting layer can handle displaying the data, even pivoting it based on skill name, or do whatever else you need to do with it.  Example below is for MSSQL specifically but other RDBMS would be similar.  

/** CREATE TABLES */
CREATE TABLE dbo.Person
    (
    PersonID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY
    , PersonName VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
    )

CREATE TABLE dbo.Skill
    (
    SkillID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY
    , SkillName VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
    )

CREATE TABLE dbo.PersonSkill 
    (
    PersonSkillID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY
    , PersonID INT NOT NULL REFERENCES dbo.Person (PersonID)
    , SkillID INT NOT NULL REFERENCES dbo.Skill (SkillID)
    )

/** GET SOME DATA **/
INSERT INTO dbo.Person
(PersonName)
VALUES ('John Smith') --1
    , ('Jane Doe') --2

INSERT INTO dbo.Skill
(SkillName)
VALUES ('Coding') --1
    , ('English') --2
    , ('Spanish') --3

INSERT INTO dbo.PersonSkill
(PersonID, SkillID)
VALUES (1,1)
    , (2,1)
    , (2,3)

/** QUERIES */
--What Skills does John have?
SELECT P.PersonName
    , S.SkillName
FROM dbo.Person AS P
    INNER JOIN dbo.PersonSkill AS PS ON PS.PersonID = P.PersonID
    INNER JOIN dbo.Skill AS S ON S.SkillID = PS.SkillID
WHERE P.PersonName = 'John Smith'

--Who can speak Spanish?
SELECT P.PersonName
    , S.SkillName
FROM dbo.Person AS P
    INNER JOIN dbo.PersonSkill AS PS ON PS.PersonID = P.PersonID
    INNER JOIN dbo.Skill AS S ON S.SkillID = PS.SkillID
WHERE S.SkillName = 'Spanish'