The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname.
For example, there were 129 people called RODERICK in Carfan Prisk 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 1777.7778 in Carfan Prisk means that
1777.7778% of the people in Carfan Prisk on census day were called RODERICK.
The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called RODERICK
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 RODERICK 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 RODERICK 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 RODERICK here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely.
The value of 0.13 in Carfan Prisk means that you are 0.13 times as likely to find
someone with the surname of RODERICK in Carfan Prisk than you would be in the whole of the UK.