Nika (given name)

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|meaning="victory" from nikē (νίκη), "Very Good" from Nik, "grandfather"

|origin=Greek, Persian, Pashto, Nigerian

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|related names=Nike, Niki, Niko, Niku, Nikita, Nicholas, Nikola, Nikoloz, Nica

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Nika is a female or male given name having multiple origins in different languages and countries. In Slavic countries the name comes from the Ancient Greek goddess of victory "Nike"Petrovsky, p. 38 (some personalities coming from Slavic countries are listed below). Nika is a female name in Persian, language meaning "very good" and "pure crystal water" {{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}, it derives from "Nik" meaning "Good", "True" and "Chosen". Nika is also the name of a river in north of Iran. Zoroastrianism, the ancient Iranian religion believes in the motto "Pendar Nik" (Good Thoughts), "Goftar Nik" (Good Words), and "Kerdar Nik" (Good Deeds). In the Pashto language, Nika is a male given name meaning "grandfather".{{cite book |author1=Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo |title=The Boundaries of Afghans’ Political Imagination: The Normative-Axiological Aspects of Afghan Tradition |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=9781443865722 |page=27 |chapter=Chapter One - Pashtunwali: The Warrior Ethos}} In Saraiki language Nika means "little" and used to be a popular nickname for the youngest boy in the family {{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}.

In Slovenia and Croatia, Nika is used as a feminine form of Nikola or Nikolaj. In the Russian language, Nika may be a diminutive of the male given names like Agafonik, Andronik, Dominik, Nikita, Nikodim, Nikifor or of the female given name Agafonika,Petrovsky, p. 38 as well as a form of female name Veronika. In Igbo culture, Nika, shortened version of female Ginika or Ginikanwa. Nika is a very popular man's name in Georgia.