Given name & surname
Hassel
“marsh”·“forest clearing”
Hassel is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, Hassel is built from elements meaning “marsh” and “forest clearing”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Hassel has more than one origin: as a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “marsh + forest clearing”; as a Swedish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “hazel”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hassel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 512
- 512 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1974. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 248 as a first name in 2020; 1,620 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hassel’s family of names
Hassel may belong to the same name family as HASSELL. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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