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I have a soft spot for Hazel because it was my maternal grandmother's name. When my siblings and I were growing up, of course we considered it a typical "old lady" name and I think we just had a knee-jerk reaction that as such it must be horrible, without ever really stopping to think about it.

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I remember once my sister saying, years later when we were adults, that when she stopped to think about it, and repeated the name to herself, she realized that it was actually kind of pretty and she sort of liked it.

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I think it's charming without being actually "pretty." If you're the type who doesn't like pretty-pretty girls' names, I can see why you'd like it.

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As for it becoming a "celebrity baby name", I don't know. I don't think it could really become such, since it was an established name long before Julia Roberts used it, though of course it had been out of style for a long time. I would think a "celebrity baby name" would be a name that a celebrity uses that hasn't before been an established name, such as Apple or Jett.

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I love the combo Hazel Augusta Sandrine. It's so quirky yet elegant.

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Better middle name ideas? Well, my grandmother was Hazel Zoe. But I think that Hazel Augusta Sandrine is better.