Verity
Verity 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, 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.
First name
- Verity Crawley, English professional bowler
- Verity Barton, Australian politician
- Verity Firth, Australian politician
- Verity James, Australian TV and radio presenter
- Verity Lambert, English television producer
- Verity Laughton, Australian playwright
- Verity Marshall, English actress
- Verity Rushworth, English actress
- Verity Sharp, English broadcast radio personality
- Verity Snook-Larby, 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
- 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
Surname
- Anthony Verity, English educationalist and classical scholar
- Charles Verity, English stone mason, building contractor and mayor of Doncaster
- Charlotte Verity, British painter
- Claude Hamilton Verity, English hardware merchant, engineer and inventor
- Elsie Eleanor Verity, "The First Lady of the motor trade"
- Fred Verity, English engineer, inventor, iron founder, brass-founder, manufacturer and retailer of ironmongery
- Hedley Verity, English cricketer
- Hugh Verity, British RAF and SOE pilot
- Jake Verity, American football player
- John Verity, English guitarist
- Ruggero Verity, Italian physician and entomologist
- Thomas Verity, an English architect
- William Verity Jr., American businessman and government official
- Verity , a bronze statue made by Damien Hirst
- Verity, e.g. List of shipwrecks in 2023#October
- Verity, 2018 novel by Colleen Hoover