Nyota is a given name. It means ''star'' in the African languages Swahili and

Lingala Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: ''Lingála'') is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree in ...

.Nyota
- A house of invitation & Accessories People, animals, companies and fictional characters with this name include: * Nyota Inyoka (1896–1971), French-Indian dancer and choreographer *

Nyota Ndogo Nyota Ndogo (real name Mwanaisha Abdalla, born c. 1981) is a musician from Kenya who performs taarab-influenced pop music. Ndogo is from the coastal city of Mombasa. She was a school drop-out who worked as a house maid. Her father Abdala Atib was a ...

, Kenyan musician * Nyota (Bonobo), male

Bonobo The bonobo (; ''Pan paniscus''), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus '' Pan,'' the other being the comm ...

born at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University *

Nyota Uhura Nyota Uhura () is a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' franchise. In the Star Trek: The Original Series, original television series, the character was portrayed by Nichelle Nichols, who reprised the role for the first six List of Star Trek ...

, fictional Communications Officer in the original series of ''Star Trek'' * Nyota, wedding invitation and accessories manufacturer and exporter

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{{Reflist African given names Swahili words and phrases