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The first name 
Nikita

Nikita is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.

When two girls called Nikita meet...

… 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.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Nikita

Nikita -
keeping with the times

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.

Nikita in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

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.

Nikita has 6 letters 
and begins with an N

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.

Other names with 
N, i, k, i, t and a

If you take all the letters in the name Nikita – N, i, k, i, t and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Naitik or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Nikita

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...

This is how you spell the name Nikita

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nikita, you can simply say:

Nut

Igloo

Koala

Igloo

Tiger

Apple

This is how the name Nikita is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Nikita in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Nikita

Nikita

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Nikita

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Nikita is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

N
I
K
I
T
A

Have you ever waved the name Nikita

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.

N
I
K
I
T
A

Beeping like crazy...

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: