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🔥Hazel

HAY-zul
English
"the hazelnut tree"
Sophie Kihm
By Sophie Kihm
Updated Wed Jun 25 2025

Hazel Origin and Meaning

The name Hazel is a girl's name of English origin meaning "the hazelnut tree".

Hazel has a pleasantly hazy, brownish-green-eyed, old-fashioned image that more and more parents are choosing to share. Former Old Lady name Hazel reentered the popularity lists in 1998 and now is near the top of the charts.

Hazel is a name that comes from the English word hazel, referring to the hazelnut tree. The word was derived from the Old English hæsel of the same meaning. Historically, a wand of hazel symbolized protection and authority.

When Julia Roberts named one of her twins Hazel in 2004, there was a great public outcry against "another one of those nutty celebrity names", though we saw it as the deserved revival of a lovely vintage name with roots in nature. Hazel was one of the botanicals that were all the rage at the turn of the twentieth century, when it was in the Top 25, then fell out of favor, off the list completely from 1976 to 1998.

Other celebrities with daughters named Hazel include Emily Blunt & John Krasinski, and Taylor Neisen & Liev Schreiber.

Hazel Motes is the protagonist of Flannery O'Connor's 1952 novel Wise Blood, and In The Hunger Games, one of the characters is the variant Hazelle. But the most influential Hazel of recent years is the heartrending heroine of Fault in Our Stars.

A Top 20 name in the US, it also entered the UK Top 100 in 2023.

# 19 in the US

Hazel Rank in US Top 1000

# 3 on Nameberry

Hazel Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Hazel

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Famous People Named Hazel

  • Hazel Scott (1920
    1981), Black jazz and classical pianist, singer, and actor
  • Hazel Anne Blears
    British MP and cabinet minister
  • Hazel O'Connor
    English singer,songwriter and actress
  • Hazel Mae Clark
    American Olympic athlete
  • Hazel Hempel Abel
    U.S. Senator from Nebraska
  • Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
    American tennis player
  • Hazel Jane Dickens
    American bluegrass singer
  • Hazel Keech (born Rose Dawn)
    Indian,British actress
  • Hazel Brooks
    American actress
  • Hazel McCallion
    Canadian politician from Ontario
  • Hazel Mae (Cagulada)
    Canadian sportscaster
  • Hazel Hayes
    YouTube personality
  • Hazel Lavery (1880
    1935), wife and model of the Irish artist Sir John Lavery whose likeness appeared on Banknotes of Ireland for much of the 20th century
  • Hazel Gordy Jackson
    daughter of Motown producer Berry Gordy; wife of singer Jermaine Jackson
  • Hazel Bailey Lessard (b. 2004)
    daughter of musician Stefan Lessard of The Dave Matthews Band
  • Hazel Patricia Moder (b. 2004)
    daughter of actress Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder, twin of Phinnaeus Walter 'Finn' Moder
  • Hazel Jane Moody (b. 2009)
    daughter of novelist Rick Moody
  • Hazel McMurray (b. 2013)
    daughter of NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray
  • Hazel Krasinski (b. 2014)
    daughter of actors John Krasinski and Emily Blunt
  • Hazel Flora Lieberstein (b. 2014)
    daughter of writers Warren Lieberstein and Audrey Wauchope
  • Hazel Lucia Castro (b. 2015)
    daughter of singer Jason Castro
  • Hazel Grace Busby (b.2015)
    one of the Busby Quints on TV's "Outdaughtered"
  • Hazel Pyatt (b. 2016)
    daughter of ice hockey player Taylor Pyatt
  • Hazel Nicola Lewis (b. 2016)
    daughter of rugby league player Luke Lewis

The name Hazel in Pop Culture

  • Hazel Grace Lancaster
    main character in book/movie "The Fault in Our Stars"
  • Hazel Burke
    main character on TV's "Hazel"
  • Hazel Levesque
    character in the Heroes of Olympus series
  • Hazel Wassername
    character on TV's "30 Rock"
  • Hazel Williams
    character on TV's "Gossip Girl"
  • Hazel Aden
    character on TV's "Degrassi : The Next Generation"
  • Hazel
    character in video game "Amnesia: The Dark Descent"
  • Hazel
    male rabbit in book/movie "Watership Down"
  • Hazel Bellamy
    character on TV's "Upstairs, Downstairs"
  • Hazel
    Male character in the “Umbrella Academy”
  • Hazel Shade
    character in "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Hazel Stone
    character in "The Rolling Stones" by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Hazel Frost
    character in X,Men Comics
  • Hazel Flagg
    main character in 1937 film "Nothing Sacred"
  • Hazel Charming
    character in Canadian animated series "Little Charmers"
  • Hazel
    character in manga series Gensoumaden Saiyuki
  • Hazel
    main character in the comic "Saga"
  • Hazel Wong
    main character in the Wells and Wong Mysteries book series
  • Hazel Cahn
    character in game "Dream Daddy"
  • Sister Hazel
    American pop/rock band
  • "Hazel
    " Bob Dylan song
  • Hazel
    main character in the animated series “Infinity Train”

International Variations of the name Hazel

  • Aveline
    French

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