Unity
2025 SSA
About Unity
Like Verity and Amity, this inclusive virtue name used by the colorful British literary Mitford family is ready to join its more popular peers Hope, Faith, and Grace.
The name was embraced by the Puritans in the seventeenth century, but was not as common as others. In literature it occurs as a servant in Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Unity Valkyrie Mitford supposedly inspired the character of Bellatrix Lestrange in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Unity Kincaid is a character In the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.
Pronounced YOO-nuh-tee.
As of October 2026, Unity ranked #4538 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2951 in 2022.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | #4,725 | 30 | 16.9 |
| 2017 | #4,684 | 30 | 17.4 |
| 2018 | #4,879 | 28 | 16.5 |
| 2019 | #3,380 | 47 | 28 |
| 2020 | #3,905 | 37 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | #4,078 | 36 | 21.9 |
| 2022 | #2,951 | 57 | 34.8 |
| 2023 | #3,467 | 46 | 28.7 |
| 2024 | #4,098 | 36 | 22.2 |
| 2025 | #4,538 | 31 | 19.3 |
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Unity on lists
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- Unity Valkyrie Mitford
English socialite; Hitler's alleged lover
- (Ursula) Unity Croshaw
daughter of American planter Joseph Croshaw; wife of American colonial leader Col. John West
Unity in pop culture
- Unity
servant at Endelstowe Vicarage who marries the sexton, Martin Cannister, in Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes" (1873)
- Unity
one of the pressurized modules of the International Space Station
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a collective hivemind and former lover of Rick on animated series "Rick and Morty"
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game,making program
- "U.N.I.T.Y.
" song by Queen Latifah