# Verity

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For other uses, see [Verity (disambiguation)](/source/Verity_(disambiguation)).

**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](/source/Truth)". It is thus an equivalent of [Alethea](/source/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](/source/Puritan)[1] and [Quaker](/source/Quaker) [virtue name](/source/Virtue_name), truthfulness being considered as a desirable attribute especially in women, and following a new [Protestant](/source/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.[2]

## First name

- [Verity Crawley](/source/Verity_Crawley) (born 1994), English professional bowler
- [Verity Barton](/source/Verity_Barton) (born 1985), Australian (Queensland) politician
- [Verity Firth](/source/Verity_Firth) (born 1973), Australian politician
- [Verity James](/source/Verity_James), Australian TV and radio presenter
- [Verity Lambert](/source/Verity_Lambert) (1935–2007), English television producer
- [Verity Laughton](/source/Verity_Laughton) (born 1952), Australian playwright
- [Verity Marshall](/source/Verity_Marshall) (born 1986), English actress
- [Verity Rushworth](/source/Verity_Rushworth) (born 1985), English actress
- [Verity Sharp](/source/Verity_Sharp) (born 1970), English broadcast radio personality
- [Verity Snook-Larby](/source/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](/source/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince)*
- Verity Hunt, the murder victim in the novel *[Nemesis](/source/Nemesis_(Christie_novel))* by Agatha Christie
- Verity Mullens, the spaniel in the book *[Verity Mullens and the Indian](/source/Verity_Mullens_and_the_Indian)* by Natalia M. Belding (1960)
- Verity Poldark Blamey, recurring character in the 2015 television series *[Poldark](/source/Poldark_(2015_TV_series))*
- Verity Price, character in the *[InCryptid](/source/InCryptid)* novel series
- Verity Simone Carlo, character in the [IDW Publishing *Transformers*](/source/The_Transformers_(IDW_Publishing)) comic series

## Surname

- [Anthony Verity](/source/Anthony_Verity) (born 1939), English educationalist and classical scholar
- [Charles Verity](/source/Charles_Verity) (1814–1899), English stone mason, building contractor and mayor of Doncaster
- [Charlotte Verity](/source/Charlotte_Verity) (born 1954), British painter
- [Claude Hamilton Verity](/source/Claude_Hamilton_Verity) (1880–1949), English hardware merchant, engineer and inventor
- [Elsie Eleanor Verity](/source/Elsie_Eleanor_Verity) (1894–1971), "The First Lady of the motor trade"
- [Fred Verity](/source/Fred_Verity) (1847–1897), English engineer, inventor, iron founder, brass-founder, manufacturer and retailer of ironmongery
- [Hedley Verity](/source/Hedley_Verity) (1905–1943), English cricketer
- [Hugh Verity](/source/Hugh_Verity) (1918-2001), British [RAF](/source/Royal_Air_Force) and [SOE](/source/Special_Operations_Executive) pilot
- [Jake Verity](/source/Jake_Verity) (born 1997), American football player
- [John Verity](/source/John_Verity) (born 1949), English guitarist
- [Ruggero Verity](/source/Ruggero_Verity) (1883–1959), Italian physician and entomologist
- [Thomas Verity](/source/Thomas_Verity), an English architect (1837 – 1891)
- [William Verity Jr.](/source/William_Verity_Jr.) (1917–2007), American businessman and government official

**Other**

- [*Verity* (sculpture)](/source/Verity_(sculpture)), a bronze statue made by Damien Hirst
- Verity (ship), e.g. [List of shipwrecks in 2023#October](/source/List_of_shipwrecks_in_2023#October)
- *[Verity](/source/Verity_(novel))*, 2018 novel by Colleen Hoover

## References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). *Oxford Dictionary of First Names*. Oxford University Press. p. 270. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.

1. Surnames had been adopted by families in England centuries before the Puritan era

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