Hazel
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The story
Hazel begins with something tactile: the English word for the hazel tree or light-brown color, descended from Old English hæsel and coined as a given name in the nineteenth century. Hazel Scott gave the name a different kind of motion. In a filmed performance, she sat between two pianos and turned on a swiveling stool to play both. Her command extended beyond the keyboard. The Smithsonian museum says her contracts required fully integrated venues, and she criticized stereotyped film roles offered to Black actresses. The Library of Congress also identifies Scott as the first African American to host her own television show, a firstness limited to that role and medium. The two-piano scene is playful to watch, but the wider story has stakes: performance on one side, insistence on fair conditions on the other. Those choices belonged to Scott, not the name. They leave Hazel with a precise cultural anchor far beyond tree and color.
How popular is Hazel around the world?
In the United States, 36,809 babies were named Hazel between 2020 and 2025. In New Zealand, 157 girls named Hazel were registered in 2025.
Hazel is on the official records of the United States, New Zealand, New South Wales, South Australia, Ireland, Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Mexico City, France, Austria, Chile, Argentina, Spain and Brazil.
United States
1 in 590
In the United States, 36,809 babies were named Hazel between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Hazel peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure. Hazel reached 59,627 US births in the 1920s, its high point before 1930, fell to 1,241 in the 1980s, and was back at 36,809 in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
New Zealand
1 in 370
In New Zealand, 157 girls named Hazel were registered in 2025.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
New South Wales
#8 · 2025
In New South Wales, 259 girls named Hazel were registered in 2025, ranked 8th in that year’s top 100 for girls.
share of that year’s top-100 registrations
New South Wales (not all of Australia) publishes only each year’s 100 most popular names per sex, so a missing year means below that top 100, not rare. Source: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, popular baby names
South Australia
1 in 5302017
In South Australia, 35 girls were registered as Hazel in 2017.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Ireland
1 in 620
In Ireland, 88 girls named Hazel were born in 2025, the 55th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Canada
1 in 640
In Canada, 573 girls named Hazel were born in 2024, the 27th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 910
In England and Wales, 638 girls named Hazel were born in 2025, the 71st most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Scotland
1 in 1,100
In Scotland, 43 girls named Hazel were registered in 2024, the 97th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Mexico City City
1 in 6,900
In Mexico City, there were 17 registrations of Hazel in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
France
1 in 7,200
In France, about 70 girls named Hazel were born in 2025, the 611th most common name among girls that year.
In France, about 20 boys named Hazel were born in 2025, ranked 1,592nd among boys that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Austria
1 in 38,000
In Austria, 2 girls named Hazel were born in 2025, ranked 1,305th among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Chile
1 in 45,000
In Chile, 4 girls were registered as Hazel in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Argentina
1 in 66,000
In Argentina, 10 newborns were given the name Hazel in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Spain
1 in 250,000
In Spain, 178 residents are named Hazel, ranked 4,879th among women, with a mean age of 50.4 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 88 people in Brazil were named Hazel, ranked 45,127th, with a median age of 8.
The census also counted 35 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Montevideo City
last on record 1994
Hazel is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Puerto Rico
last on record 2023
Hazel is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 45 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
Not on the record in Poland: that registry withholds small counts, so rare uses may sit below its floor.
Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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