Verita
Verita was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 165 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,917, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1963, the peak
Verita peaked in 1963, when 13 girls were given it, #3,794 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #11,917 | 3.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,756 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,538 | 5.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,962 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,593 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,986 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,608 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,536 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,994 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,794 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 8 | #5,281 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,819 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,277 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,213 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,874 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,796 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,578 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,349 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,363 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,293 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,626 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,742 | 3.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,199 | 3.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,214 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Verita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Verita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Verita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verita, and how old are they?
An estimated 133 Americans named Verita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 58 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 206 people named Verita (205 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,280 babies since 1880, Verita is the fourth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 145 babies recorded by SSA was a Verita (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Verita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Verita and names like it
- Compare Verita and VerityBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sVerita peaked in 1963.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Verita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.