Verity
Verity is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning Truth.
What Verity means
Truth.
Verity sits at 6 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Verity comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Verity is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Verity?
Verity is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Verity is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Verity
We group Verity under faith. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Faith
Names like Verity
These share Verity's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Grace — Grace, elegance, divine favor.
- Verena — True; honest.
- Arabella — Yielding to prayer; beautiful.
- Cecilia — Patroness of music.
- Celeste — Heavenly.
- Constance — Steadfast and constant.
- Domenica — Of the Lord; born on Sunday.
- Trinity — The holy three.
- Amadeus — Lover of God.
- Augustine — Great and venerable.
- Benedict — Blessed.
- Bennett — Blessed.