The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 21,973 people called DELMONTE in Spitalfields London 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 963.8554 in Spitalfields London means that
963.8554% of the people in Spitalfields London on census day were called DELMONTE.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called DELMONTE
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 DELMONTE 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 DELMONTE 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 DELMONTE here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 21.97 in Spitalfields London means that you are 21.97 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of DELMONTE in Spitalfields London than you would be in the whole of the UK.