Marites

Girls' name

Blend of Maria and Teresa

Marites has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Marites, 1985

1 in 714,000

Marites over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marites: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Maria and Teresa

Spanish

What Marites means

Marites is a blend of Maria and Teresa.

Origin, language, and formation

Marites is used in Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria, Teresa and Maria Teresa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Marites is pronounced /ˈmaɾites/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 girls were recorded with the name Marites between 1973 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1978; its best national rank was #5,812 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marites?

Marites had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1985: 1 in 714,000; 5 of 3,568,740 births
Among girls only: 1 in 344,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1985: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 494,734 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marites sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1985 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 494,734 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marites. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maritess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marites was born before 1980 — so the typical Marites is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 58.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 73; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 58.9% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Marites rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1978 (11)
Years since peak: 47; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,812; 1978

Spellings of Marites

Marites is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 86.6% against Marites's 0.01%.

Marie86.6%540,077
Maribel4.0%24,870
Maritza3.7%23,153
Mariel1.2%7,482
Marilee1.2%7,434
Marita0.82%5,088
Maite0.72%4,466
Maris0.43%2,671

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marites is used

Across 1910–2025, Marites was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 727,853 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marites has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marites by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,812; 1978
Peak year: 1978; 11 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 1985
All-time count: 73
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marites

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Marlani Mariani Mariell Mariany Marialy Maripaz Marsali Maritta Maryeli Marlaya Mariham Mareya Marlayah Maryori Marlia Maryuri Marieme Marielly Marziya Marloe Maryel Marchel Marshal Mareesa

Sibling names for Marites

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shanta Cory Imelda Lakesha Cristy Aja Jason Bambi

For a brother

Delvin Cedrick Torrey Jed Kristofer Tory Aric Rodrick

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