Traditionally:

European
– Counting of your own children and to see that they are happy and nice: the children will live their lives with no problems and go to honorable positions;
– To count people in dream: power, dignity and ambition fulfilled, lucky numbers: 3, 7, 9, 11 and 17;
– To count money: you are lucky and you can pay your debt;
– To count in dream anything for yourself: predicts good fortune;
– To count another person money or other things of others: this dream announce losses in near future;

Hindu
– Counting in dream: you’ll have to do with greedy people.

Please, see also interpretation of money, numbers.