Verity
#1,478 for girls in 2025, 145 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 145 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,852since 1966
Verity over time
Rank among girls' names. Verity has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,478 | 145 |
| 2024 | #1,852 | 108 |
| 2023 | #1,699 | 121 |
| 2022 | #1,898 | 106 |
| 2021 | #1,791 | 113 |
| 2020 | #1,616 | 129 |
| 2019 | #1,802 | 113 |
| 2018 | #1,813 | 112 |
| 2017 | #2,464 | 73 |
| 2016 | #2,479 | 73 |
| 2015 | #2,890 | 60 |
| 2014 | #2,888 | 59 |
| 2013 | #2,973 | 56 |
| 2012 | #3,169 | 52 |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 |
| 2010 | #3,470 | 46 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
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| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Verity! It came in at #5,809, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1972, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Verity is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#693 · 1 in 3,356
- Washington#947 · 1 in 5,068
- Ohio#1,143 · 1 in 7,289
- Michigan#1,233 · 1 in 8,049
- North Carolina#1,396 · 1 in 9,002
Best ever in a state: #362 in Idaho, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #693 | 7 | 1 in 3,356 |
| Washington | #947 | 6 | 1 in 5,068 |
| Ohio | #1,143 | 7 | 1 in 7,289 |
| Michigan | #1,233 | 5 | 1 in 8,049 |
| North Carolina | #1,396 | 5 | 1 in 9,002 |
| Texas | #1,649 | 13 | 1 in 12,224 |
| California | #1,852 | 12 | 1 in 15,789 |
| Florida | #2,024 | 5 | 1 in 17,017 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Verity
- 374 spots since 2024 (#1,852 → #1,478)
- 138 spots since 2020 (#1,616 → #1,478)
- 1,412 spots since 2015 (#2,890 → #1,478)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2025 at #1,478 (145 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,085 girls born in 2025 were named Verity (0.01%)
- 39.0% of all girls named Verity (722) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #5,809 (1966) | #5,809 |
| 1970s | 72 | #3,612 (1977) | #5,508 |
| 1980s | 80 | #5,222 (1984) | #7,454 |
| 1990s | 75 | #6,867 (1990) | #9,056 |
| 2000s | 213 | #3,848 (2007) | #6,283 |
| 2010s | 684 | #1,802 (2019) | #2,773 |
| 2020s | 722 | #1,478 (2025) | #1,722 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Verity in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 15,188 of them was named Verity, which outranked 90.0% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,799Precious113
- #1,799Taelyn113
- #1,799Unique113
- #1,813Verity112
- #1,813Adaleigh112
- #1,813Aiyanna112
- #1,813Alayla112
- #1,830Ali111
- #1,830Anaiah111
- #1,830Arrow111
Tied with 16 names at #1,813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.