Hazal as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hazal

What is the meaning of the name Hazal ?

The baby name Hazal is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced HAH-zahl.

Hazal is Persian, Turkish in Origin.

Hazal is a Turkish vocabulary name, recorded in modern Turkish as hazal, a collective noun for dry leaves shed by trees in autumn. It is distinct from English Hazel, the tree name. Turkish sources often connect the form with hazan, from Persian xazān, autumn, transmitted through Ottoman Turkish; the internal -l is not usually parsed as a productive suffix. The literal sense is autumn leaves.

As a given name, Hazal belongs chiefly to Turkey and became conspicuous in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century naming, including bearers such as actress Hazal Kaya and swimmer Hazal Sarıkaya. Turkish rankings placed it at 55th in 2021, showing regular contemporary use rather than antiquarian revival. It is sometimes confused with Hazan, an autumn term from the same Persian base, and with Kurdish Xezal or Arabic Ghazal, gazelle, a separate name despite similar sound.