Top surnames in Aston from the 1881 British Census

Top surnames by total occurrences

Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
SMITH	4141	2.0412	1.4457
JONES	2611	1.2870	1.1364
TAYLOR	1943	0.9578	1.4977
DAVIS	1277	0.6295	2.8645
WILLIAMS	1220	0.6014	0.8372
EVANS	1126	0.5550	1.2702
BROWN	1065	0.5250	0.7964
GREEN	1063	0.5240	1.8607
HILL	1005	0.4954	1.9451
JOHNSON	899	0.4431	1.3189

Surname	Total	Frequency	Index
FINNEMORE	54	0.0266	33.4946
ROOKER	59	0.0291	31.1083
CLIVE	76	0.0375	30.4061
BILLINGSLEY	75	0.0370	26.4243
SLIM	51	0.0251	26.3267
NEWEY	198	0.0976	23.9385
ALLDAY	62	0.0306	23.2305
LUCKMAN	57	0.0281	19.3437
KIMBERLEY	131	0.0646	17.7255
PEARSALL	72	0.0355	17.5687

The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 2611 people called JONES in Aston 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 1.2870 in Aston means that 1.2870% of the people in Aston on census day were called JONES.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called JONES 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 JONES a if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. If the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someoen called JONES here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and if 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 JONES here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 1.1364 in Aston means that you are 1.1364 times as likely to find someone with the surname of JONES in Aston than you would be in the whole of the UK.