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Not to my knowledge.
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Hazel is an independent name.I'm trying to see where you got the idea...maybe someone from Germany named Hedwig might have changed her name to Hazel when she moved to the United States to fit in with American culture? They used to do it at the immigration office - change names that were not English. (They did the same thing in Brazil.)

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"I'm trying to see where you got the idea...maybe someone from Germany named Hedwig might have changed her name to Hazel when she moved to the United States to fit in with American culture? "That is possible.I got my idea from a German name book that I was reading a couple of years ago. Thank you!
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