Given name · Ukrainian
Нікіта
Нікіта (Nikíta) is a masculine given name from Russian, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Nikíta.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Нікіта comes from Russian, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Нікіта developed from Νικήτας.
Нікіта’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Нікіта developed from the Ancient Greek form Νικήτας. In Ukrainian usage, Нікіта can be written in the Roman alphabet as Nikíta. In Ukrainian usage, Нікіта shares an earlier linguistic root with Мики́та.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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