Verity (alias Veretie, Verety, Verita, Veritie, etc.) is a female first name and a surname. As a first name it derives from the Latin feminine noun veritas, meaning "truth". It is thus an equivalent of Alethea, a female first name first used in England circa 1585, derived from the ancient and modern Greek feminine noun αλήθεια (pronounced "al-ee-thia"), meaning "truth". It was adopted in England as a Puritan and Quaker virtue name, truthfulness being considered as a desirable attribute especially in women, and following a new Protestant tradition of naming children after virtues instead of saints in order to avoid idolatry.
Verity is also a surname, which may have more ancient unrelated origins, possibly being a corruption of a similar word.
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First name
Verity Crawley (born 1994), English professional bowler
Verity Barton (born 1985), Australian (Queensland) politician
Verity Firth (born 1973), Australian politician
Verity James, Australian TV and radio presenter
Verity Lambert (1935–2007), English television producer
Verity Laughton (born 1952), Australian playwright
Verity Marshall (born 1986), English actress
Verity Rushworth (born 1985), English actress
Verity Sharp (born 1970), English broadcast radio personality
Verity Smith, British rugby player and LGBT+ rights activist
Verity Snook-Larby (born 1970), English race walker
Fictional characters
Verity, the assistant of Fred and George Weasley in Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Verity Hunt, the murder victim in the novel Nemesis by Agatha Christie
Verity Mullens, the spaniel in the book Verity Mullens and the Indian by Natalia M. Belding (1960)
Verity Poldark Blamey, recurring character in the 2015 television series Poldark
Verity Price, character in the InCryptid novel series
Verity Simone Carlo, character in the IDW Publishing Transformers comic series
Verity, the main antagonist of the Something Minecraft horror web series created by YouTuber ThatMob
Surname
Anthony Verity (born 1939), English educationalist and classical scholar
Charles Verity (1814–1899), English stone mason, building contractor and mayor of Doncaster
Charlotte Verity (born 1954), British painter
Claude Hamilton Verity (1880–1949), English hardware merchant, engineer and inventor
Elsie Eleanor Verity (1894–1971), "The First Lady of the motor trade"
Fred Verity (1847–1897), English engineer, inventor, iron founder, brass-founder, manufacturer and retailer of ironmongery
Hedley Verity (1905–1943), English cricketer
Hugh Verity (1918-2001), British RAF and SOE pilot
Jake Verity (born 1997), American football player
John Verity (born 1949), English guitarist
Ruggero Verity (1883–1959), Italian physician and entomologist
Simon Verity (1945-2004), British sculptor, master stone carver and letter cutter
Thomas Verity, an English architect (1837 – 1891)
William Verity Jr. (1917–2007), American businessman and government official
Other
Verity (sculpture), a bronze statue made by Damien Hirst