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Throughout the world, Mushka (Муся , Mushka , מושקא ) is quite a rare unisex first name. The first name Mushka is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare primarily girly, but very seldom masculine name, Moldova, where it is quite a rare female name, and Russia, where it is a rare gender-neutral name. In absolute terms, the name is most common in Russia, Israel, and Ukraine. Likewise, Mushka is the last name as well as the forename.
Mushka is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Maria Mironova , the character in "The Captain's Daughter" by Pushkin; Masha , the character in the play "The Seagull"; Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova , the operatic character in the opera Krieg und Frieden, War and Peace; Mariya Darry , the character in A Song of Ice and Fire and Умная Маша , among other works.