Marites

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marites is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name38K records spelled Marites11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Marités, Märîtēs

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Marites is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of marītō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Filipino, rumormonger

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 19 years between 2002–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 55 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marites?

We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Marites (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Marites have the most bearers?

Marites is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled marites.

How common is Marites compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Marites is the 113th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.

Is Marites a male or female name?

Marites is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Marites mean?

Recorded meaning: By folk etymology, from Mare, ito ang latest (literally “Sis, here's the latest”), but actually after Marites, the eponymous character in TikTok videos by content creator Justine Luzares in 2020.