Nikita is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Nikita is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Nikita. In the SmartGenius ranking, Nikita is #2,309 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nikita.
Nikita is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Nikita - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 236 in 1986. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Nikita really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nikita was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
88 babies were named Nikita in 2022 - that's 1 in 4,359,762 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Nikita ranked 1,937 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Nikita is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Nikita and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nikita, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Koala
Igloo
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nikita
Nikita
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nikita sounds like this: