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tally Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: variant spelling of Talley.
  2. Irish (County Longford): occasionally a variant of Tully.
  3. French: occupational name from a variant of Old French tailleur, an agent derivative of tailler ‘to cut’, hence an occupational name for a tailor or stonecutter.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of tally Families in the US in 1920
Number of tally families
 52-101
 18-51		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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