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RESEARCHED ENTRY NAME IN THE PHILIPPINES

Purita.

Diminutive of Purificación; purification

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Gender context
Girl
Letters
6
Words
1
Syllables / divisions
3
First letter
P
Sources
7

Synthetic Filipino reading. Personal and regional pronunciations can differ.

MEANING & HISTORY

What does Purita mean?

Purita is explicitly recorded as a familiar form of Purificación. The longer Spanish devotional name means purification and relates to a Christian feast associated with Mary.

The ending ita gives an affectionate form. Pure is a related idea, but the documented parent-name route is more exact than treating Purita as an unrelated Latin adjective or a modern English invention.

References for this explanation

  1. Wiktionary: Purita ↗
  2. Wiktionary: Purificación ↗

Pronunciation & syllables

Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.

Tagalog

  • /puˈɾita/Standard-Tagalog
  • [pʊˈɾiː.t̪ɐ]Standard-Tagalog

Pu · ri · ta3 source divisions

Dictionary reading & contributors ↗

Cebuano

Pu · ri · ta3 source divisions

Dictionary reading & contributors ↗

Spanish

  • /puˈɾita/
  • [puˈɾi.t̪a]

Pu · ri · ta3 source divisions

Dictionary reading & contributors ↗

Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0

Origin and name formation

Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.

Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads

Use in Philippine-linked records

Public-record transcription

4

eligible source records · 2001

This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.

OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗

PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS

Purita in the birth records

Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.

No exact-spelling count for Purita appears in the PSA name tables included here. This does not mean zero births or prove that the name is rare.

Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →

Similar names to Purita

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What rhymes with Purita?

Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.

Names with a similar written ending

Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.

AgapitaAlfreditaAlicitaAlitaAmelitaAnalitaAnecitaAngelita

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Follow the sources

  1. OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)

    Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.

  2. COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)

    Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.

  3. Wiktionary contributors — Purita (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)

    Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.

  4. Wiktionary contributors — Purita (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)

    Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.

  5. Wiktionary contributors — Purita (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)

    Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.

  6. Wiktionary: Purita (opens in a new tab)

    Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.

  7. Wiktionary: Purificación (opens in a new tab)

    Explicit lexical or parent-name step in the described formation.