Tally

Where Tally comes from

The dictionaries list Tally as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #5,295 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Peak, #2,663
    19 babies named Tally — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,245.
  4. 1961
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Tally hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.