The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 544 people called WINHAM in Stibbington 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 10000.0000 in Stibbington means that
10000.0000% of the people in Stibbington on census day were called WINHAM.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called WINHAM
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 WINHAM 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 WINHAM 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 WINHAM here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.54 in Stibbington means that you are 0.54 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of WINHAM in Stibbington than you would be in the whole of the UK.