Entry № 7042 · Japanese origin

Murasaki Murasaki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ moo-rah-SAH-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Purple (Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "purple (murasaki shikibu, author of the tale of genji)".

Murasaki (紫) is the Japanese word for "purple" or "lavender" — also the name of the Lithospermum plant used to dye purple. Murasaki Shikibu (c. Her diary, the Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, is one of the most vivid eyewitness accounts of life at the Heian imperial court.

Featured on the 2,000-yen Japanese banknote.

Purple (Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji) — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Murasaki
Pronunciation
/ ˌmʊr.əˈsɑː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Murasaki stands.

Murasaki does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Murasakis before her.

Real people
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese Heian author.
c. 973 – 1014
In fiction
Murasaki
Character in The Tale of Genji.

Names connected to Murasaki.

The number behind Murasaki.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Murasaki reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.