Verity

Where Verity comes from

The dictionaries list Verity as a given name — a female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #5,809 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #1,478
    145 babies named Verity — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Verity hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.