Verity is a first name for girls.
Verity is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,985 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,984 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Verity.
In fact, the name Verity did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Verity seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,465, 129 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Verity, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Verity was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Verity a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,736 - with a total of 103 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Verity are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Verity is registered in 19 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Verity live in Washington, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 62,148 would turn around if you called the name Verity across Washington.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Verity is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Verity and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Verity, you can simply say:
Violin
Elephant
Rocket
Igloo
Tiger
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Verity
Verity
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
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Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
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Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Verity sounds like this:
