Pele — unisex name

What the Data Says About Pele

The Social Security Administration has registered 52 babies named Pele between 1973 and 2019, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pele currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Pele is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 51 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pele performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 27 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Pele shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pele in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 52 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.