Only a few people with faimily name Murata live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Varazdin (<5) and Dubrovnik (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.