Hazel (given name)
 Hazel takes its name from the flowering shrub, one species of which is witch hazel. | |
| Gender | feminine |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | English |
| Meaning | "hazel" |
| Region of origin | English |
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.[1] It became a popular name in English-speaking countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, along with other names of plants or trees used for girls.
The name was the 211th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2011 and the 52nd in 2016.[2] It was last popular at the turn of the 20th century, when it was among the 25 most popular names for girls. It declined in usage in the United States after the 1960s, but has been rising in popularity since 1998. The name ranked at No. 138 in 1990 on a census of popular names for women of all ages in the United States. It also was occasionally used for boys in the United States between 1900 and 1940. It was ranked as the 99th most popular name for girls born in Ireland in 2005.[3]
Variations include Hazelle, Hasel and Heizle.
People
- Hazel Blears (b. 1956), British politician and Labour MP for Salford
- 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, British climber and mountaineer
- nickname of Hedley Hazelden (1915–2001), British test pilot and Second World War pilot
- Hazel Hayes (b. 1985), Irish YouTuber, filmmaker, and author
- Hazel Hutchins, Canadian children's author
- Hazel Irvine (b. 1965), British television presenter
- Hazel Keech, British-Mauritian film actress
- Hazel Bryan Massery, protesting student caught in a legendary photograph during the integration crisis
- Hazel McCallion (b. 1921), mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Hazel Miner, who died saving her siblings during a spring blizzard in Center, Oliver County, North Dakota
- Hazel O'Connor, British singer-songwriter and actress
- Hazel R. O'Leary, former United States Secretary of Energy
- Hazel Perfect (d. 2015), British mathematician
- Hazel Scott (1920–1981), 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, a UAE-Hong Kong Architect
Fictional characters
- Hazel Aden, in Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Hazel Bellamy, in Upstairs, Downstairs
- Hazel (Burke), maid to the Baxter family in the comic strip Hazel and the TV sitcom based on it
- Hazel Charming, in Little Charmers
- Hazel Flagg, protagonist in the film Nothing Sacred
- Hazel Frost, mother of Emma Frost, a character in the X-Men comics
- Hazel Grace Lancaster, in John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars
- Hazel Motes, in Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood
- Hazel Levesque, a daughter of Pluto and one of the seven in Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus
- Hazel Shade, daughter of the poet John Shade in the novel Pale Fire
- Hazel Stone (Heinlein), created by Robert A. Heinlein
- Hazel Woolley, a character in the radio soap opera The Archers
- Hazel, rabbit leader in the Richard Adams novel Watership Down
- Hazel, in Kazuya Minekura's manga series Gensoumaden Saiyuki
- Hazel, the narrator of Brian Vaughan's comic book Saga and the first hybrid child to survive infancy
- Hazel, a minor antagonist of the TV series The Umbrella Academy