The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 340 people called SWINGLER in Little Addington 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 1562.5000 in Little Addington means that
1562.5000% of the people in Little Addington on census day were called SWINGLER.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called SWINGLER
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 SWINGLER 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 SWINGLER 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 SWINGLER here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.34 in Little Addington means that you are 0.34 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of SWINGLER in Little Addington than you would be in the whole of the UK.