{{other uses}} {{Infobox given name | name = Verity | image = Alfred Schwarzschild's "Truth".jpg | imagesize = | caption = ''Truth'' by Alfred Schwarzschild. | pronunciation = | gender = feminine rarely masculine | meaning = truth | region = England | origin = Old French | nickname = | related names = Veretie, Verety, Verita, Veritie }}'''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<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanks|first1= Patrick| last2=Hardcastle|first2=Kate |last3=Hodges| first3=Flavia| author-link= |date= 2006|title= Oxford Dictionary of First Names|url= |location= |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=270 |isbn= 0-19-861060-2 }}</ref> 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.<ref>Surnames had been adopted by families in England centuries before the Puritan era</ref>
==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 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
==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 *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 * Verity (ship), e.g. List of shipwrecks in 2023#October *''Verity'', 2018 novel by Colleen Hoover {{given name|type=both}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Virtue names