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All around the world, Rapunzel (Rapa , Rapunzel , ラプンツェル ) is a common primarily masculine, but scarcely feminine first name. The first name Rapunzel is characteristic of India, where it is quite a rare predominantly male, but very seldom feminine name, Philippines, where it is a rare female name, and Romania, where it is a rare unisex name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in India, Philippines, and Indonesia. Likewise, Rapunzel is the last name as well as the forename.
Rapunzel is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Rapunzel , the fictional character from the 2010 animated film Tangled, Frozen; Rapunzel , the fictional princess from the Shrek franchise, Shrek the Third and Rapunzel , the musical character in the musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim.