Verity

Meaning: Truth, truthfulness
Origin: English (from Latin)

Girl's name · #1482 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Verity is climbing: on the charts since 1966, it reached #1482 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 150 girls given the name last year. Roughly 1,900 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#438 in England & Wales (2025) · #4,060 in Canada (2024).

Famous Veritys

Verity Lambert — English television and film producer (1935–2007)
Verity Rushworth — British actress
Verity Firth — Australian politician
Verity Ockenden — British middle-distance runner
Verity Bargate — English novelist and theatre director

In stories & tradition

Verity Birdwood — Fictional character in series of novels by Jennifer Rowe
Verity — The Exorcist (TV series)
Verity Willis — Loki: Agent of Asgard (comics)

What Veritys become

Among 44 notable people named Verity:

Entertainers appear 1.91× more often than among typical names — e.g. Verity Lambert, English television and film producer (1935–2007).

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