The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 45 people called TOONE in Derby Hills at the time of the 1881 census.
The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town
with this surname. For example, a frequency of 5454.5455 in Derby Hills means that
5454.5455% of the people in Derby Hills on census day were called TOONE.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called TOONE
in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole.
An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same
probability of picking someone called TOONE as if you picked at random from the whole of the UK.
Where the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called TOONE here
than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and where it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure
shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find
someone called TOONE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.05 in Derby Hills means that you are 0.05 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of TOONE in Derby Hills than you would be in the whole of the UK.