# Nikita (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nikita/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | “conqueror”, “victory” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,668 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,890 / 10,778 (79% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,973, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the Russian Ники́та (Nikíta), a male given name, from Ancient Greek Νικήτας (Nikḗtas, “conqueror”) also a male given name (and name of various saints). The Greek word derives from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”). Made known in the West by Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union leader in 1953–1964. It was reanalyzed as a form of Nicholas and taken up as a girls' name first in French and then in English.

## What it means

Nikita is grouped under victory.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 139 | 1,576 |
| 2012 | 112 | 1,819 |
| 2013 | 108 | 1,873 |
| 2014 | 79 | 2,342 |
| 2015 | 93 | 2,100 |
| 2016 | 72 | 2,514 |
| 2017 | 60 | 2,829 |
| 2018 | 55 | 2,994 |
| 2019 | 44 | 3,539 |
| 2020 | 46 | 3,376 |
| 2021 | 51 | 3,199 |
| 2022 | 35 | 4,179 |
| 2023 | 42 | 3,696 |
| 2024 | 32 | 4,451 |
| 2025 | 31 | 4,524 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 79 | 1,820 |
| 2012 | 84 | 1,782 |
| 2013 | 75 | 1,892 |
| 2014 | 101 | 1,572 |
| 2015 | 92 | 1,701 |
| 2016 | 94 | 1,682 |
| 2017 | 69 | 2,045 |
| 2018 | 79 | 1,896 |
| 2019 | 66 | 2,164 |
| 2020 | 64 | 2,181 |
| 2021 | 77 | 1,951 |
| 2022 | 54 | 2,548 |
| 2023 | 59 | 2,357 |
| 2024 | 34 | 3,439 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,217 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 99 | 432 |
| 2012 | 69 | 607 |
| 2013 | 60 | 663 |
| 2014 | 39 | 940 |
| 2015 | 41 | 891 |
| 2016 | 42 | 881 |
| 2017 | 30 | 1,144 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,393 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,497 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1,267 |
| 2021 | 19 | 1,569 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,849 |
| 2023 | 13 | 2,063 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 1,024 |
| 2012 | 42 | 765 |
| 2013 | 43 | 751 |
| 2014 | 52 | 650 |
| 2015 | 40 | 790 |
| 2016 | 34 | 903 |
| 2017 | 36 | 861 |
| 2018 | 30 | 958 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 27 | 1,019 |
| 2021 | 34 | 888 |
| 2022 | 28 | 1,029 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,309 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,322 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## People named Nikita

- Nikita Parris, English association football player (born 1994)
- Nikita Denise, Czech pornographic actress
- Nikita Kriukov, cross-country skier
- Nikita Dragun, American internet personality, YouTuber, make-up artist and model
- Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (1912-1992)
- Nikita Stylites, 12th-century Russian saint
- Nikita Baranov, Estonian association football player (born 1992)
- Nikita Cuffe, Australian water polo player
- Nikita Shurshin, cyclist
- Nikita Andreev, Estonian-Russian footballer (born 1988)
- Nikita Mandryka, French cartoonist (1940-2021)
- Nikita Naumov, Belarusian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.