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I love this name - it has always sounded so badass to me.
It feels very cartoonish to me, kind of tawdry. I picked up a used book the other day, a murder thriller that sounded pretty decent, but the moment I read that the main character female detective's name was "Nikita" I was immediately struck with something like secondhand embarrassment for the author. Suddenly the entire book felt cheap and silly. Nikita on a girl has that aura to me. A smutty dark fantasy guilty pleasure beach read kind of name.
It strikes me as a masculine name, but I also think it could work as a rare feminine name in the English-speaking world, although I prefer Nika for girls. Either way, it's nice and down-to-earth, with a hint of exoticism.
It's masculine to me. And there are so many fem versions of Nicholas that I don't see the point of a sex change. And, thanks to a friend who's a Russian specialist, I can only think of Krushchev.
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I have two main associations with the idea of it on a girl (an American, since I don't have much perspective about those who aren't):
1. the movie La Femme Nikita in which it seemed like an 80s hip gender-bending thing - so a sort of Hollywood/Russo-chic quasi-androgynous usage, like Sasha.
2. it's an Indian usage, so would seem as unusual to see as Anjali or Priya.
I would find it a pretty appealing name, regardless of who the bearer was, and regardless of these associations. On a "just American" gal I think it would seem modern, the way that Kaia or Mila does.
1. the movie La Femme Nikita in which it seemed like an 80s hip gender-bending thing - so a sort of Hollywood/Russo-chic quasi-androgynous usage, like Sasha.
2. it's an Indian usage, so would seem as unusual to see as Anjali or Priya.
I would find it a pretty appealing name, regardless of who the bearer was, and regardless of these associations. On a "just American" gal I think it would seem modern, the way that Kaia or Mila does.
I think it’s pretty! I like the nickname “Niki” too.