Hazel name meaning, origin, famous people, and graphic designs

Name: Hazel

Pronunciation: ha-zel

Origin: British

Meaning: the hazel tree

Gender: feminine given name, girl’s name

Story of Hazel name 🔗

Hazel is a feminine name of Old English origin meaning “the hazel tree”. This name is by no means new, but it still is one for the ages. This classically beautiful name evokes the rich colors of hazel trees and the times of the year when they thrive. Giving baby a name with a built in sense of home is a wonderful birthday present.

Hazel is a primarily female given name meaning “hazel”, from the name of the tree or the color. It is derived from the Old English hæsel. It became a popular name in English-speaking countries during the 19th century, along with other names of plants or trees used for girls.

Until about 1865, Hazel was a rare name that was primarily in masculine use in the United States. A sympathetic character in the 1880 play Hazel Kirke by Steele MacKaye helped popularize it as a feminine name in the late 1800s. It later fell out of fashion but has increased in popularity due to the influence of the character Hazel Grace Lancaster in the 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and its 2014 film adaptation.

The name was among the 25 most popular names for girls in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. It declined in usage in that country after the 1960s but rose again in usage after 1998. It has ranked among the top 50 names for newborn girls in the United States since 2017. It also was occasionally used for boys in the United States between 1900 and 1940.

The name has also increased in popularity in recent years for girls in other English-speaking countries such as Ireland and Canada, where it was the 38th most popular name given to newborn girls in 2021 and 2022.

Variations include Hazell, Hazelle, Hasel and Heizle. Elaborations in use in the United States include Hazelgrace, Hazelmae, and Hazelmarie. Other names in use such as Hazelee, Hazeleigh, Hazelyn and Hazelynn might in some instances be variants.

Common Nicknames for Hazel 🔗

• Haze

Graphic designs for Hazel 🔗

Hazel name is written on top of a painting of Hazel tree:

Well-known people named Hazel 🔗

• Hazel Blears (b. 1956), British politician and Labour MP for Salford
• Hazel Brown (1942–2022), Trinbagonian women’s and consumer rights activist
• Hazel Byford (b. 1941), Conservative member of House of Lords, Britain
• Hazel Carby (b. 1948), professor of African American Studies and of American Studies
• Hazel Carter (1894–1918), American army stowaway and writer
• Hazel Court (1926–2008), British actress
• Hazel Crowney, British-born Bollywood (India) film actress
• Hazel Dickens (1925–2011), American bluegrass singer
• Hazel Findlay (born 1989), British climber and mountaineer
• nickname of Hedley Hazelden (1915–2001), British test pilot and Second World War pilot
• Hazel Gaynor (b. 1971), English author in Ireland
• Hazel Hayes (b. 1985), Irish YouTuber, filmmaker, and author
• Hazel Hutchins, Canadian children’s author
• Hazel Irvine (b. 1965), British television presenter
• Hazel Brill Jackson (1894–1991), American sculptor
• Hazel Keech (born 1987), British-Mauritian film actress
• Hazel Bryan Massery (born 1942), protesting American student caught in a legendary 1957 photograph during the integration crisis
• Hazel McCallion (1921–2023), mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Hazel Miner (1904–1920), who died saving her siblings during a spring blizzard in Center, Oliver County, North Dakota
• Hazel O’Connor (born 1954), British singer-songwriter and actress
• Hazel R. O’Leary (born 1937), former United States Secretary of Energy
• Hazel Perfect (1927-2015), British mathematician
• Hazel Poa (b. 1970), Singaporean politician
• Hazel Salmi (1893–1986), American visual artist, arts administrator
• Hazel Scott (1920–1981), American jazz and classical pianist and singer
• Hazel Schmoll (1890–1990), American botanist
• Hazel Mountain Walker (1889–1980), among the first African-American women to pass the Ohio bar
• Hazel Wood Waterman (1865–1948), American architect
• Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1886–1974), American tennis player
• Hazel Wong, UAE-Hong Kong architect
• Hazel Aun (born 1997) Aun Zhi Gie, Product Requirement Engineer in Malaysia J&T HQ IT

Similar & related names 🔗

• Haven
• Itzel
• Hayden
• Jayson
• Hayes
• Abel
• Mabel
• Rosalee
• Rosalie
• Harold
• Jameson