The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 92 people called PEET in Rothley Temple 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 1224.4898 in Rothley Temple means that
1224.4898% of the people in Rothley Temple on census day were called PEET.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called PEET
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 PEET 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 PEET 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 PEET here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.09 in Rothley Temple means that you are 0.09 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of PEET in Rothley Temple than you would be in the whole of the UK.