Entry № 11231 · Latin origin

Verity Verity — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VEH-rih-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Truth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
17th c. (English Puritan)

A name that means "truth".

Verity comes from the Latin veritas, meaning "truth." English Puritans adopted Verity as a virtue name in the 17th century alongside Faith and Hope.

Verity is widely used in the UK and rising elsewhere.

Truth. The Puritan virtue name.

The name in its native script.

Verity
Transliteration
Verity
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɛr.ɪ.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Verity stands.

Verity does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Veritys before her.

Real people
Verity Lambert
British TV producer.
1935 – 2007
In fiction
Verity Pleasence
Character in Winston Graham's Poldark.
1945 onward

Names connected to Verity.

The number behind Verity.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Verity reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.