Tally
Tally was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,299 among girls’ names; 699 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tally by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tally mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tally is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tally?
#8,299 among girls’ names, 2025
Tally entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,299 in 2025.
33 babies in 1975, the peak
Tally peaked in 1975, when 33 babies were given it (18 girls, #3,750 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,299 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,019 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,076 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,994 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,066 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,913 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,277 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,341 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,941 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,862 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,299 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,388 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,908 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,481 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,241 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,540 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,354 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,638 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,226 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,457 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,023 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,648 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,393 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,509 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,232 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,502 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,639 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,531 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,172 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,093 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,651 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,615 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,045 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,133 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,701 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,544 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,733 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,245 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,332 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,047 | 7 | #5,060 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,332 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,750 | 15 | #2,739 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,015 | 14 | #2,781 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,139 | 7 | #4,444 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,870 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,084 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,763 | 6 | #4,668 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,404 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,588 | 5 | #4,671 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,721 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,738 | 6 | #3,904 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,413 | 5 | #4,367 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,938 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,237 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,821 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,775 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,098 | 6 | #3,946 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,738 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,787 | 6 | #3,892 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,756 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #4,202 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,013 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,031 | 6 | #3,690 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,293 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,987 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,978 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,994 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #4,097 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,470 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #4,098 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #4,159 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,138 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tally a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 699 Americans recorded as Tally, 80% are girls and 20% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tally: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tally, and how old are they?
An estimated 610 Americans named Tally and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 23 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 784 people named Tally (598 women and girls, 186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,997 babies since 1880, Tally is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,595 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tally
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tally and names like it
- Compare Tally and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTally peaked in 1975.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Tally.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tally alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.