Pele (Hawaiian) means "lava flow." The Hawaiian goddess of fire, lightning, wind, dance, and volcanoes — the creator of the Hawaiian Islands themselves. She is believed to still live in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of Kīlauea on the Big Island — one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Modern Hawaiians still leave offerings of ohelo berries, gin, and silk scarves at the crater edge. Taking volcanic rocks home from Hawaii is said to bring Pele's curse upon the thief.
Subject of countless Hawaiian mele (chants) and modern hula traditions.
Pele does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pele reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.