Hazel
Hazel is ranked 19th among girls in 2024 (6,401 births). Its best rank was 18th, in 1897, 2023.
- Rank in 2024
- #19down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,4010.40% of girls
- Peak year
- 19187,615 births
- Best rank
- #18first in 1897
- Since 1880
- 299,063people given the name
The story in the numbers
296,198 girls have been named Hazel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 7,615 births — 0.66% of all girls recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 123 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 61 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,865 boys have also been given it, 0.96% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hazel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,644 | |
| 1890s | 20,154 | |
| 1900s | 23,802 | |
| 1910s | 57,068 | |
| 1920s | 58,984 | |
| 1930s | 28,567 | |
| 1940s | 16,657 | |
| 1950s | 9,135 | |
| 1960s | 3,674 | |
| 1970s | 1,489 | |
| 1980s | 1,235 | |
| 1990s | 1,683 | |
| 2000s | 5,930 | |
| 2010s | 33,913 | |
| 2020s | 30,263 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Hazel was the 33rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Hazel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eviapeak 1919
- Thorapeak 1916
- Estherpeak 1918
- Zolapeak 2018
- Margueritepeak 1918
- Izettapeak 1924
- Ernapeak 1916
- Verapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.