Pele

Where Pele comes from

From Hawaiian Pele.
— Wiktionary's entry for Pele
  • Hawaiian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1973
    Debut at its peak, #8,423
    #8,423 among girls with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 2021
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.