Tally

Tally commonly refers to counting or to summation of a total amount, debt, or score (Oxford English Reference Dictionary). Tally may also refer to:

Counting

• Tally (voting), an unofficial private observation of an election count carried out under Proportional Representation using the Single Transferable Vote
• Tally counter, a mechanical device used to maintain a linear count
  • Tally for knitting, or row counter for hand knitting, a tally counter for counting rows or courses worked, for counting stitch pattern repetitions, or for counting increases or decreases of the number of stitches in consecutive rows
• Tally marks, a form of numeral used in a unary numeral system, most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport
• Tally sort, a computer science counting and sorting algorithm
• Tally stick, an ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages
  • Fu (tally), a Chinese tally stick used as proof of authorization

Places

• Tallahassee, Florida, nicknamed Tally
• Tally Ho, Victoria, a locality within the suburb of Burwood East, Victoria, Australia
• Tally Too'er, in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, is one of the country's three martello towers
• Tally-Ho Plantation House, a home in Louisiana
• Tallygaroopna, Victoria, a town in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia
• Tallygaroopna railway station, Victoria, a railway station in Victoria, Australia
• Tallysville, Virginia, an unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States

People

Given name

• Tally Brown (1934–1989), a singer and actress
• Tally Gotliv (born 1975), Israeli lawyer and politician
• Tally Hall (soccer) (born 1985), Talmon Henry "Tally" Hall, an American soccer player
• Tally Holmes, an African American tennis player in the 1910s and 1920s
• Tally Monastyryov (1939–2011), Soviet alpine skier
• Tally Sneddon (1914–1995), Scottish professional football wing half and manager
• Tally Stevens (1923–1995), Floyd C. "Tally" Stevens, the head coach for Brigham Young University Cougars football team from 1959–1960
• Tallys, Tallys Machado de Oliveira (born 1987), Brazilian attacking midfielder

Surname

• Harry Tally (1866–1939), American singer
• Lura S. Tally (1921–2012), a retired legislator from North Carolina
• Robert Tally (born 1969), an American literary critic
• Ted Tally (born 1952), an American playwright and screenwriter
• Thomas Lincoln Tally (1861–1945), early motion picture theater proprietor and movie producer in Los Angeles, California
• William Tally, an American engineer and former CTO of Saleen, Inc

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Tally (painting), a 1994 painting by Ellen Gallagher

Fictitious characters

• Tally Man, two fictional characters in the DC Universe
• Tally Wong, a Celebrity Deathmatch character
• Tally Youngblood, a fictional character in the Uglies series, written by Scott Westerfeld

Music

• "Tally (song)", song by Blackpink from the album Born Pink, 2022
• Tally Hall (band), an American rock band formed in December 2002 based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Tally Ho! (album), an album by Luke Vibert under the alias Wagon Christ
• "Tally", a song by midwxst and Denzel Curry, 2023

Brands and enterprises

• Tally (company), a defunct printer company
• Tally Solutions, an Indian multinational financial accounting software company
  • TallyPrime, enterprise resource planning software developed by Tally Solutions
• Tally Technologies, a debt management app in the U.S. and makers of the Tally app
• Tally Weijl, a chain clothing retailer in Europe
• Tally-Ho (rolling papers), an Australian brand of cigarette rolling paper
• Tally Ho, the daily newspaper of The Village in the TV series The Prisoner
• TallyGenicom, a defunct printer company

Sports

• ASC Niarry Tally, a football club from Senegal
• Tally-ho, a phrase used in hunting
• Tallygaroopna Football Club, an Australian rules football club

Other uses

• Tally (cap), a ribbon on a sailor's cap
• Tally language, a form of unary language in computational complexity theory
• Tally light, a small signal-lamp on a television camera or monitor
• Tally's War, an incident in 1863 in Iowa, in which pro-war individuals opened fire on a peace demonstration

See also

• Talley (disambiguation)