The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 526 people called FOWKES in Swepstone 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 1656.0510 in Swepstone means that
1656.0510% of the people in Swepstone on census day were called FOWKES.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called FOWKES
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 FOWKES 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 FOWKES 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 FOWKES here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.53 in Swepstone means that you are 0.53 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of FOWKES in Swepstone than you would be in the whole of the UK.