That region Nikita is a boys name it didn't really occur to us that it would cause confusion till we came here and she made friends with a girl at her school who is from Azerbaijan, her Mum had a laugh with me when we met over it as her daughter would come home from school everyday talking about this girl Nikita, her mum thinking that she was just getting her english muddled kept correcting her saying no I think you mean your friends a boy.