Given name · also Spanish
Marites
Marites is a feminine given name from Spanish, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Tagalog and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Marites comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Filipino usage, Marites is a diminutive of Maria. In Filipino usage, Marites is a diminutive of Teresa.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Marites through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 73
- 0 boys · 73 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1985. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,683 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Marites’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Marites is a diminutive of Maria. In Filipino usage, Marites is a diminutive of Teresa.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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