Verity
About Verity
If you love Puritan virtue names and want to move beyond Hope and Faith and Grace, this is a wonderful choice, both for its meaning and its sound. A rare find here, though occasionally heard in England. It was used in Winston Graham's Poldark novels, was Madonna's name as James Bond's fencing instructor in Die Another Day, and made a brief appearance in Harry Potter. Not to mention being a fixture on British and Australian soaps. Verity also appears in one of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple mysteries.
We love the newer sounding three-syllable, 'y'-ending virtue names, and Verity is one of the best.
Pronounced VER-uh-tee.
As of October 2026, Verity ranked #1482 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #203.
Editor's take: The name Verity is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "truth".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,919 | 59 | 33 |
| 2015 | #2,925 | 60 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | #2,500 | 73 | 41.2 |
| 2017 | #2,484 | 73 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | #1,829 | 112 | 65.8 |
| 2019 | #1,814 | 113 | 67.3 |
| 2020 | #1,620 | 129 | 79.8 |
| 2021 | #1,798 | 113 | 68.9 |
| 2022 | #1,905 | 106 | 64.6 |
| 2023 | #1,706 | 121 | 75.4 |
| 2024 | #1,875 | 107 | 66 |
| 2025 | #1,482 | 145 | 90.2 |
World rankings
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Verity on lists
Famous Veritys
- Verity Eileen Bargate
English novelist and theatre director
- Verity Helen Firth
Australian politician
- Verity Keays
English pop singer
- Verity Ann Lambert
English TV producer
- Verity Long
Droppert, Australian softball player
- Verity Price
South African singer,songwriter
- Verity Charlotte Rushworth
English actress
- Verity Sharp
English radio presenter
- Verity Anne Simmons
Australian netball player
- Verity Beatrice Snook
Larby, Scottish race walker
- Verity Stob
pen name of a British humor columnist
- Verity Susman
English musician of band Electrelane
- Cassandra Verity Green
knitwear designer
- Verity Marion Jann (b. 2014)
daughter of actors Michael Patrick Jann and Lisa LoCicero
- Verity Leigh Cook (b. 1971)
daughter of singer and actor David Essex (born David Cook)
Verity in pop culture
- Verity
character in Iain M. Banks's "The Crow Road"
- Verity Poldark
character in the Poldark series
- Verity
shop assistant in 'Weasley's Wizard Wheezes' in the Harry Potter series
- Verity Hunt
character in Agatha Christie's novel "Nemesis"
- Verity Hawkyard
a religious bigot, trustee to Silverman in "George Silverman's Explanation" (1868) by Charles Dickens
- Verity Willis
character in Marvel's Agent of Asgard comics
- Verity "Vet
" character in Irvine Welsh's "Maribou Stork Nightmares"
- Verity Pushpram
character in Sir Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels
- Verity Birdwood
main character in mystery novels by Jennifer Rowe
- Verity Heathbar
character in an episode of TV's "The Simpsons"
- Verity Wade
character in film "A Lion is in the Streets"
- Verity Marshall
main character on Australian TV series "Marshall Law"
- Verity Henderson
character in 1973 film "The House in Nightmare Park"
- Verity Asherton
main character in "Verity of Sydney Town" by Ruth C. Williams
- "Code Name Verity
" novel by Elizabeth Wein
- Lake Verity
location in video games Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon Pearl, and Pokémon Platinum
- Verity
character on TV's "The Exorcist"
- Verity Kindle
main female character in Connie Willis's scifi time travel novel "To Say Nothing of the Dog"
- Verity Price
character in Seanan McGuire's "InCryptid" series