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How popular is the name Verity?
Births per year, rank history and how many Verities are alive today.
Verity (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 436th in 2025 with 92 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2009, when 146 babies were given the name, the 314th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2017, with 146 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 457 in 2022 before climbing back to the 436th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Verity you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Verities born in England and Wales are between 10 and 28, and there are at least 4,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Verity.
How many babies are named Verity each year?
Where does Verity rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Verity most popular?
Verity peaked in 2009, when 146 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Verity?
At least 4,300 people named Verity born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Verity?
Most living Verities are between 10 and 28; the most common age is about 10.
Is Verity becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.