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I was messing around doing a google search and entered my daughter's name - NIKIDA (pronounced Nickeeda). I came up with a couple of hits from your site. Nikida was born in 1979 and I thought I made up her name - I liked Nikita which is a russian man's name and also Nikidtja which is an aboriginal name. Ended up I just changed the "t" to a "d" and hence Nikida. I can find more recent usage of this name so pehaps it caught on but does anyone know of the name, meaning etc prior to 1979?
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The Greek connection
Let us start with the premise that the main root of Nikida is the Greek word/name Nike, meaning "victory".
The following "variants" of Nike close to Nikida are registered in the *Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk):
Male:
Nikides
Nikidas
Female:
Nikis
Nikidion
Nikido
The modern/demotic Greek version Nikis could very well be Nikida, in the same way that Alcestis becomes Alcestida.
It seems tp me you have reinvented/resurrected a very ancient name :)
Let us start with the premise that the main root of Nikida is the Greek word/name Nike, meaning "victory".
The following "variants" of Nike close to Nikida are registered in the *Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk):
Male:
Nikides
Nikidas
Female:
Nikis
Nikidion
Nikido
The modern/demotic Greek version Nikis could very well be Nikida, in the same way that Alcestis becomes Alcestida.
It seems tp me you have reinvented/resurrected a very ancient name :)
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