girls:
289.7k births since 1880
#133 (98th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1886
#2372 (48th percentile)
overall:
292.6k births since 1880
#264 (97th percentile)
The name Hazel is the #264 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 292,563 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #133 (97.7% percentile) for all time with 289,743 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,372 (48.3% percentile) for all time with 2,820 births since 1886.
Hazel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1886 for boys).
The name Hazel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Hazel reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 98.2% percentile (ranked #18) with 3,518 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 9,421 births per million (ranked 94.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hazel ranks #18 for girls (98.2% percentile) with 3,518 births per million, which is 37.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Hazel reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 14.8% percentile (ranked #428) with 86 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 174 births per million (ranked 9.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hazel ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hazel".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Hazel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Hazel is pronounced as HAY-zuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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