Nicetas

For the genus of moths, see Nicetas (moth).

Nicetas or Niketas (Νικήτας) is a Greek given name, meaning "victorious one" (from Nike "victory"). The veneration of martyr saint Nicetas the Goth in the medieval period gave rise to the Slavic form Nikita.

People with the name Nicetas

• Nicetas of Syracuse, (c. 400 - 335 BC), Greek philosopher
• Nicetas of Smyrna, late 1st-century Greek sophist and rhetorician, see Second Sophistic
• Nicetas of Remesiana, 4th-century bishop of the Dacians, now the patron saint of Romania
• Nicetas the Goth, 4th-century martyr
• Nicetas (Bishop of Aquileia), mid-5th-century archbishop of Aquileia
• Nicetas (cousin of Heraclius), early 7th-century Byzantine general
• Niketas the Persian, 7th-century Byzantine officer
• Niketas (son of Artabasdos), mid-8th-century Byzantine general
• Nicetas of Medikion (Nicetas the Confessor, fl. 783 – 824), Byzantine monk and hegumenos
• Nicetas the Patrician (Nicetas Monomachos, c. 761 – 836), Byzantine eunuch official and monk, opponent of Iconoclasm
• Niketas Ooryphas (fl. 860 – 873), Byzantine official, patrician and admiral
• Niketas (son of Ioube) (fl. 912), Byzantine general and governor
• Nicetas of Heraclea, 11th-century Greek catenist
• Nicetas Eugenianus, Byzantine Greek author of Drosilla and Charicles, see Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie
• Nicetas of Novgorod (fl. 1095 – 1108), saint and Bishop of Novgorod
• Nicetas of Nicomedia, 12th-century archbishop
• Nicetas of Chonae, 12th-century bishop in Byzantine Anatolia
• Nicetas (Bogomil bishop) (papa Nicetas), 12th-century bishop of Constantinople
• Niketas Choniates (c. 1155 – c. 1215), Byzantine historian
• Niketas Scholares (fl. 1341 – 1361), Byzantine Greek military leader
• Nicetas I of Constantinople (fl. 766 – 780), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Nicetas II of Constantinople (fl. 1186 – 1189), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Niketas Stethatos (Nicetas Pectoratus, c. 1005 – c. 1090), Byzantine mystic and theologian
• Nicetas of Naupactus, see Minuscule 886
• Nikon Nizetas, cover name of WW1 spy Alfred Redl

See also

• Anicetus (disambiguation)
• Nikita (disambiguation)
• Victor (name)