Hazelton

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A male given name transferred from the surname.
• city Idaho (state).
• village British Columbia (province).
• city North Dakota (state) ; named after early settler Hazel Roop.
• town Kansas (state) ; named for founder Rev. J. Hazelton.
• neighborhood of city, Youngstown Ohio (state) ; named for the landowning Haseltine family, respelled with the -ton placename suffix.
• community California (state) ; named for Hazelton Blodget, son of a local oilman.
• community New Jersey (state).
• community West Virginia (state).

Origin

• From multiple placenames in England: Hesleden, County Durham, , Haslingden, Lancashire, , and Hazleton, Gloucestershire. From Old English hæsl ("hazel") + denu.