The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 684 people called ATKISSON in Barming 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 40000.0000 in Barming means that
40000.0000% of the people in Barming on census day were called ATKISSON.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called ATKISSON
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 ATKISSON 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 ATKISSON 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 ATKISSON here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.68 in Barming means that you are 0.68 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of ATKISSON in Barming than you would be in the whole of the UK.