Marites
Meaning
a blended name (from Maria and Teresita), immortalized by the "Aling Marites" internet meme as the archetypal neighborhood gossip
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Marites has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
22 people · the #116,443 first name in Brazil · median age 53
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Marites deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Marites truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Marites fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Marites travels
Filipino · a Filipino coinage blending Maria and Teresa, a staple of the 1960s and 1970s cohort. Internet slang later turned Marites into a byword for the neighborhood gossip, a fate real bearers carry with humor.
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