Verity
Verity was given to 145 girls in 2025, #1,482 among girls’ names; 1,852 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Verity and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verity by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Verity mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Verity is “a female given name from English derived from the Latin for truth; one of the Puritan virtue names.”
/ˈvɛɹɪti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Verity?
#1,482 among girls’ names, 2025
Verity rose from #2,925 in 2015 to #1,482 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 33.6 to 90.2 per million.
145 babies in 2025, the peak
Verity peaked in 2025, when 145 girls were given it, #1,482 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 108 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145 | #1,482 | 90.2 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,868 | 66.7 |
| 2023 | 121 | #1,707 | 75.4 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,905 | 64.6 |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,799 | 68.9 |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,622 | 79.8 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,814 | 67.3 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,829 | 65.8 |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,485 | 42.3 |
| 2016 | 73 | #2,500 | 41.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,925 | 33.6 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,917 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 56 | #3,002 | 31.9 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,206 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,834 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,510 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,564 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,131 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,914 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,824 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,473 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,806 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,023 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,024 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,298 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,465 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,624 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,507 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,990 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,791 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,517 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,534 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,306 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,282 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,805 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,263 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,504 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,276 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,531 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,021 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,893 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,307 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,390 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,414 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,207 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,754 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,135 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,660 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,644 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,537 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Verity a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Verity has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Verity: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verity, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,852 Americans ever recorded as Verity. The median Verity alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,278 people named Verity (1,267 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,150 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 82 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 113 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 377 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,260 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Verity born?
The states with the most babies named Verity are California, Texas and Michigan, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,078 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,196 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 9 | #858 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #1,007 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,262 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #726 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 7 | #901 | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 6 | #916 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,119 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,232 | 1.0× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Verity with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,110 babies since 1880, Verity is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 145 of their 145 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Verity
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 Verity and names like it
- Compare Verity and VertaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVerity peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verity since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Verity: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Verity.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Verity alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.