Tally
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Last seen for boys in 1977 at #4,582
- Given to girls 80.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1958 · 19 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 562since 1947
Tally over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | — | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | — | |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | — | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | — | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | — | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | — | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | — | |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | — | |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 | — | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #3,370 | 6 |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
First appearance
1947
The first year at least five girls were named Tally! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tally is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Tally in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tally
Momentum · girls
Rising
- 2,386 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #7,885)
- 5,568 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #7,885)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1958 at #2,663 (19 births)
- Births halved by 1959, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 80,992
- Highest: 1 in 80,992 girls born in 1975 were named Tally (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,663 in 1958, was only 1 in 105,875 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
- 24.4% of all girls named Tally (137) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1961
- Mostly boys until 1960, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,295 (1947) | #5,295 |
| 1950s | 43 | #2,663 (1958) | #4,777 |
| 1960s | 65 | #4,533 (1962) | #5,448 |
| 1970s | 137 | #3,637 (1975) | #4,613 |
| 1980s | 62 | #4,527 (1982) | #7,997 |
| 1990s | 64 | #6,844 (1997) | #10,432 |
| 2000s | 80 | #9,351 (2001) | #12,290 |
| 2010s | 48 | #9,790 (2010) | #12,514 |
| 2020s | 58 | #7,885 (2025) | #10,126 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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