Girl or boy · Greek
Nikita
Say it: nih-KEE-tuh
Meaning
From Greek nikētēs 'victor'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A man's name in Russia; used for girls elsewhere since the 1980s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 13,218 babies given this name since 1949
- At its height in 1986, about 1 in 1,700 girls
- 110 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Никита
| Greek | Niketas |
|---|---|
| Russian | Nikita |
| Ukrainian | Mykyta |
Famous bearers
- Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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