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.
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.
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.