Hazel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives by a hazel tree or grove
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/heɪzəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hazel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.8K
- IEIreland≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 483 (measured from records)
- 1 in 927 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person who lives by a hazel tree or grove.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hazel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Hazel | 28 |
| PH Philippines | #251 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Hazel | 155 |
| US United States | #493 | 80,463 | 1 in 4.1K | 80K | Hazel | 483 |
| GB United Kingdom | #303 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 629 | Hazel | 264 |
| ZA South Africa | #543 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Hazel | 82 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,499 | 1 in 927 | 5.5K | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | #223 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Hazel | 88 |
| IE Ireland | #223 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 60 | Hazel | 105 |
| GY Guyana | — | 391 | 1 in 1.9K | 391 | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hazel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller by the hazel; from OE hæsel or ON hesli; first attested Alured del Hesel c1182 MELS (Wo)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Tree name, apparently invented in the 19th century; used intermittently in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In French, English name from the hazel tree, symbol of wisdom.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, topographic name for someone who lived near a hazelnut tree or grove. Middle English hasel, hesel, or perhaps a habitational name from a minor place named with this word such as Heazille Barton or Heazle Farm in Devon, or from Hessle in East Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, both named from Old English hcesel ‘hazel’ (influenced by Old Norse hesli).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From the vocabulary word denoting the tree (Old English hzsel), or its light reddish-brown nuts. This is one of the most successful of the names coined in the 19th century from words denoting plants. The fact that it also denotes an eye colour may have been a factor in its continuing popularity.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hazel Hotchkiss Wightmanb. 1886USUS tennis and badminton player (1886–1974)
- Hazel Hempel Abelb. 1888USAmerican politician (1888-1966)
- Wanda Gágb. 1893USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist and children's writer (1893-1946)
- Hazel Scottb. 1920USAmerican musician (1920-1981)
- Hazel McCallionb. 1921CACanadian politician (1921–2023)
- Hazel Brooksb. 1924USAmerican actress (1924-2002)
- Hazel Courtb. 1926GBEnglish actress (1926–2008)
- Hazel R. O'Learyb. 1937USPolitician, lawyer
- Hazel O'Connorb. 1955GBEnglish singer-songwriter and actress
- Hazel Blearsb. 1956GBBritish politician (born 1956)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 80K | #660 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6.3K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5.5K | #131 |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 629 | #75 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 578 | #660 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 391 | #253 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 60 | #95 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 43 | #97 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 15 | #132 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Hazel a male or female name?
- Hazel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Hazel mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives by a hazel tree or grove. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hazel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 498 thousand people named Hazel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hazel.
- Where is Hazel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hazel is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 927 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hazel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 80,463 people named Hazel in 2020, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Hazel compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Hazel is the 223rd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Hazel?
- A machine transcription gives /heɪzəl/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hazelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hazel” — the 223rd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.