MEANING & HISTORY
What does Ma. Clarita mean?
A primary UNAM abbreviation table documents Ma. for María, while the recorded Ma. Clarita spelling remains intact.
Denise Cruz’s UCLA discussion of Bienvenido Santos’s Brown Coterie explicitly identifies the character-name Clarita as a diminutive of Maria Clara. This supports a specific Philippine literary name-formation example. It does not claim that every Clarita was shortened from that pair, or that this particular bearer’s Ma. has a legally established expansion.
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Parts of this name
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Names in this collection
- Clarita♀Clear; bright, through Clara
- Margarita♀Pearl
- Charita♀Latinate Charity form; a separate Charis association is recorded
- Macario♂Blessed or happy
- Manolita♀Spanish familiar form of Manuela
- Margarito♂A masculine counterpart of Margarita
- Alicita·Familiar form of Alicia
- Amelita♀Often associated in secondary name guides with: A form associated with Amelia, with Emily also cited as an influence
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate records ·
MA. CLARITA
· CSV row 2,147 · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.