Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls
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.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Hazel yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Hazel's raw count actually peaked over a century ago, 7,615 births in 1918, and its rank peaked even earlier still, #18 in 1897 — one of the oldest peak years of any name across all three batches. A 120% gain over the past decade has brought it back to 6,401 births in 2024, still short of that 1918 high but closing the gap fast.
The name has been recorded in every decade since 1880, giving it an unbroken run through more than a century of both rise and decline.
Only one namesake shows up in the enrichment data, tennis and squash player Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, active in the early 20th century — a name whose modern revival, like Eleanor's and Evelyn's in earlier batches, is bringing back a genuinely old-fashioned choice rather than introducing something new.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 21 | #356 |
| 1881 | 50 | #217 |
| 1882 | 73 | #191 |
| 1883 | 123 | #149 |
| 1884 | 209 | #122 |
| 1885 | 281 | #105 |
| 1886 | 429 | #81 |
| 1887 | 504 | #72 |
| 1888 | 898 | #55 |
| 1889 | 1,056 | #48 |
| 1890 | 1,366 | #37 |
| 1891 | 1,447 | #32 |
| 1892 | 1,897 | #25 |
| 1893 | 2,052 | #22 |
| 1894 | 2,103 | #23 |
| 1895 | 2,252 | #22 |
| 1896 | 2,226 | #22 |
| 1897 | 2,339 | #18 |
| 1898 | 2,439 | #19 |
| 1899 | 2,033 | #26 |
| 1900 | 2,425 | #29 |
| 1901 | 2,097 | #23 |
| 1902 | 2,238 | #25 |
| 1903 | 2,139 | #26 |
| 1904 | 2,301 | #23 |
| 1905 | 2,351 | #25 |
| 1906 | 2,315 | #23 |
| 1907 | 2,530 | #23 |
| 1908 | 2,698 | #24 |
| 1909 | 2,708 | #24 |
| 1910 | 3,032 | #24 |
| 1911 | 3,290 | #25 |
| 1912 | 4,197 | #25 |
| 1913 | 4,589 | #27 |
| 1914 | 5,324 | #29 |
| 1915 | 7,092 | #26 |
| 1916 | 7,214 | #31 |
| 1917 | 7,285 | #31 |
| 1918 | 7,615 | #33 |
| 1919 | 7,430 | #32 |
| 1920 | 7,308 | #34 |
| 1921 | 7,341 | #34 |
| 1922 | 6,757 | #37 |
| 1923 | 6,246 | #40 |
| 1924 | 6,342 | #42 |
| 1925 | 5,778 | #45 |
| 1926 | 5,303 | #48 |
| 1927 | 5,096 | #53 |
| 1928 | 4,649 | #59 |
| 1929 | 4,164 | #64 |
| 1930 | 3,888 | #71 |
| 1931 | 3,507 | #74 |
| 1932 | 3,340 | #75 |
| 1933 | 3,030 | #82 |
| 1934 | 2,811 | #87 |
| 1935 | 2,695 | #92 |
| 1936 | 2,511 | #96 |
| 1937 | 2,347 | #106 |
| 1938 | 2,337 | #111 |
| 1939 | 2,101 | #118 |
| 1940 | 2,068 | #123 |
| 1941 | 1,981 | #131 |
| 1942 | 1,911 | #139 |
| 1943 | 1,852 | #144 |
| 1944 | 1,659 | #148 |
| 1945 | 1,439 | #164 |
| 1946 | 1,521 | #175 |
| 1947 | 1,558 | #183 |
| 1948 | 1,348 | #199 |
| 1949 | 1,320 | #205 |
| 1950 | 1,182 | #219 |
| 1951 | 1,148 | #226 |
| 1952 | 1,058 | #243 |
| 1953 | 1,041 | #251 |
| 1954 | 1,036 | #256 |
| 1955 | 910 | #287 |
| 1956 | 771 | #315 |
| 1957 | 746 | #334 |
| 1958 | 658 | #360 |
| 1959 | 585 | #391 |
| 1960 | 577 | #397 |
| 1961 | 514 | #433 |
| 1962 | 447 | #459 |
| 1963 | 420 | #472 |
| 1964 | 363 | #512 |
| 1965 | 343 | #515 |
| 1966 | 301 | #542 |
| 1967 | 256 | #595 |
| 1968 | 241 | #619 |
| 1969 | 212 | #684 |
| 1970 | 235 | #676 |
| 1971 | 188 | #773 |
| 1972 | 169 | #801 |
| 1973 | 141 | #891 |
| 1974 | 136 | #926 |
| 1975 | 134 | #945 |
| 1976 | 115 | #1,067 |
| 1977 | 127 | #1,042 |
| 1978 | 132 | #1,034 |
| 1979 | 112 | #1,180 |
| 1980 | 132 | #1,070 |
| 1981 | 131 | #1,074 |
| 1982 | 120 | #1,162 |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,334 |
| 1984 | 116 | #1,166 |
| 1985 | 119 | #1,187 |
| 1986 | 121 | #1,174 |
| 1987 | 141 | #1,086 |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,305 |
| 1989 | 154 | #1,089 |
| 1990 | 145 | #1,180 |
| 1991 | 127 | #1,308 |
| 1992 | 143 | #1,219 |
| 1993 | 147 | #1,181 |
| 1994 | 146 | #1,207 |
| 1995 | 162 | #1,098 |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,081 |
| 1997 | 192 | #1,007 |
| 1998 | 219 | #943 |
| 1999 | 231 | #916 |
| 2000 | 246 | #893 |
| 2001 | 319 | #752 |
| 2002 | 314 | #768 |
| 2003 | 385 | #681 |
| 2004 | 404 | #683 |
| 2005 | 578 | #514 |
| 2006 | 682 | #465 |
| 2007 | 909 | #358 |
| 2008 | 967 | #345 |
| 2009 | 1,126 | #293 |
| 2010 | 1,240 | #264 |
| 2011 | 1,481 | #211 |
| 2012 | 1,785 | #173 |
| 2013 | 2,056 | #157 |
| 2014 | 2,909 | #105 |
| 2015 | 4,302 | #63 |
| 2016 | 4,681 | #52 |
| 2017 | 5,046 | #43 |
| 2018 | 4,951 | #42 |
| 2019 | 5,462 | #33 |
| 2020 | 5,513 | #31 |
| 2021 | 6,011 | #28 |
| 2022 | 6,157 | #27 |
| 2023 | 6,181 | #18 |
| 2024 | 6,401 | #19 |
