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Around the globe, มาช่า (Masha , Macha , มาช่า) is a common epicene forename. The given name มาช่า is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a common female name, Tanzania, where it is quite a rare mostly feminine, but infrequently masculine name, and Algeria. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is commonest in India, Tanzania, and Algeria. More prevalently, มาช่า is the last name as well as the forename.
มาช่า is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Masha , the character from "Masha and the Bear"; Masha , the character from Tokyo Mew Mew and Masha , the operatic character in the opera The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.