Verity

What Verity means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Verity yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1966, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Verity?

US: Rising: up from #2890 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #331 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 145 girls got the name (#1478 that year). First in the US records in 1966.

How common

• About 1 in 11,085 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,753 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.33 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.31 per 1,000 girls), AZ (0.25 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Verity is #1478 in the US and #436 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Verity were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Verity

Girls

• Olive#197Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #47 vs #197 in 2025
• Poppy#292Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #7 vs #292 in 2025
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*
• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Mercy#862Editor’s note Up from #1,011 in 2015 to #862 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Verity’s. Rank is US 2025.