how to check if custom post title exists or not?

You can do it like so:

if (get_page_by_title('Some Title', OBJECT, 'post_type')) {
    // Exists
}

post_type can be “post”, “page”, a custom post type slug, etc.

Reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_page_by_title

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