Around the globe, Mashaba (Mashaba 
) is a rare epicene first name. The first name Mashaba is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Botswana, where it is quite a rare masculine name, South Africa, where it is a rare largely boy's, but uncommonly girly name, and Tanzania, where it is a very rare girly name. Much more frequently, Mashaba is the last name as well as the forename.