At a Glance
- Meaning
- Lamb's lettuce (a leafy salad green)
- Origin
- German
- Gender
- Girl
- Pronunciation
- rah-PUN-zul
Rapunzel is a German girl's name meaning “lamb's lettuce (a leafy salad green)”. It appears in our list of 250+ Cottagecore Girl Names That Feel Like a Wildflower Field.
Meaning & Origin of Rapunzel
Meaning: Lamb's lettuce (a leafy salad green).
Origin: German.
A common claim: Many people assume Rapunzel's name has something to do with her long hair or her tower. Actually: The name has nothing to do with hair or towers - it's simply the German word for a leafy salad green, tying back to the plant her mother craved in the story.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Rapunzel
rah-PUN-zulIPA /ɹəˈpʌnzəl/
Popularity of Rapunzel
Rapunzel doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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