Niketas

Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek [1]
Scripts Νικήτας(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

Derived from Greek νικητής (niketes) meaning "winner, victor". Saint Niketas was a 4th-century bishop of Remesiana in Serbia. He is a patron saint of Romania.

Related Names

Rootniketes
Other Languages & CulturesMikita, Nikita(Belarusian) Nichita(Moldovan) Nikita, Nika(Russian) Mykyta, Nikita(Ukrainian)
User SubmissionNikétás

Categories

Orthodox saints, patron saints, saints, success

Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Νικήτας.
Entry updated May 29, 2020