Entry № 8538 · German origin

Rapunzel Rapunzel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ rah-PUN-zel /
Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Rampion (the Disney Tangled princess + the Grimm tale)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (German)

A name that means "rampion (the disney tangled princess + the grimm tale)".

Rapunzel is from the German Rapunzel — the name of the rampion plant (Campanula rapunculus), a small purple-flowered herb whose roots were eaten in salads in medieval Europe; in the Brothers Grimm tale, the girl is named for the plant her mother craved during pregnancy. The Brothers Grimm story "Rapunzel" was first published in their 1812 Children's and Household Tales — adapted by them from the 1698 French story "Persinette" by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force.

Rampion (the Disney Tangled princess + the Grimm tale) — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Rapunzel
Transliteration
Rapunzel
Pronunciation
/ rəˈpʌn.zəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rapunzel stands.

Rapunzel 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.

Rapunzels before her.

Real people
Rapunzel
Grimm fairy tale character.
1812
In fiction
Rapunzel
Disney's Tangled.
2010

Names connected to Rapunzel.

The number behind Rapunzel.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rapunzel reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.