How rare is the name Hazel?

80,463 people in the United States have the first name Hazel, about 1 in 3,754. It ranks #660 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HAZEL

#660

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
80,463
About
1 in 3,754
This common or more
63.5%
Who bears it

Of the 80,463 people named Hazel, 64.4% reported their origin as White, 14.4% as Black and 11.8% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Hazel peaked in 1918, when 7,680 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
7,680
In 2025*
6,342 ▼17%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 305,469 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Hazel by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #34. The largest share of babies named Hazel, 42.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1333,676
1890s#3520,273
1900s#3423,991
1910s#4757,629
1920s#8059,627
1930s#15829,038
1940s#30116,958
1950s#5189,283
1960s#8943,751
1970s#1,5331,513
1980s#1,9231,241
1990s#1,8991,695
2000s#9365,971
2010s#20434,014
2020s#7536,809
Before 19018.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2742.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4516.1%
Baby boom 1946–645.7%
Generation X 1965–801%
Millennials 1981–960.7%
Generation Z 1997–123.6%
2013 and later21.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Hazel is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Hazel has been most common in Arkansas (2.4×), West Virginia (2.2×), and Kentucky (2.1×), and least common in New York (0.45×).

252,792 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Hazel

#658 Arianna · 80,594#659 Felix · 80,554#661 Salvador · 80,151#662 Drew · 80,031

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hazel, most common first.

#15,071 Haziel · 770#18,388 Hazael · 587#29,625 Hazell · 298#49,660 Hasel · 124

Also a last name

As a last name, Hazel ranks #4,812 of 156,621, with 7,124 people. See Hazel as a last name

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