Mura Name Meaning. Japanese: ornamental name, now rare in Japan, from mura 'village'; listed in the Shinsen shojiroku. Occurrences in America probably originated in the Ryukyu Islands, or may be shortened forms of other names containing this word. ... Catalan: habitational name from Mura in Barcelona.
Means purple in Japanese. ... A Japanese word meaning purple, violet or lavender, and denotes love and constancy in Japanese poetry. Pronounced: Moo-rah-sah-kee. Famous real-life people named Murasaki: | Edit. Lady Murasaki Shikibu, a pseudonym of an 11th century Japanese novelist and poet.