# 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), operated the Electric Theater in Los Angeles
* 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