The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 445 people called LOOK in Kings Worthy 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 1739.1304 in Kings Worthy means that
1739.1304% of the people in Kings Worthy on census day were called LOOK.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called LOOK
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 LOOK 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 LOOK 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 LOOK here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.45 in Kings Worthy means that you are 0.45 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of LOOK in Kings Worthy than you would be in the whole of the UK.