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In all the world, Marfa (Марфа , Marfa ) is a common female first name. The forename Marfa is characteristic of Ukraine, where it is quite a common girly name, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, where it is quite a rare feminine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Much less frequently, Marfa is the last name as well as the forename.
Marfa is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Marfa , the operatic character in the opera Khovanshchina by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky; a schismatic; Marfa , the operatic character in the opera The Tsar's Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin's daughter and Marfa Ignatěvna Kabanová (Kabanicha) , the operatic character in the opera Káťa Kabanová by Leoš Janáček.