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The inspiration for his name was Hebrew/Aramaic, not Hawaiian (there was some conjecture along those lines)?

I hadn't even thought to look it up. I was simply noting the word plays and description crossover with this year's blessing.

But thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. See, now I've gotta ping the longsuffering folks who might already be a tad perturbed at my infernal posts as it is.

Hopefully grace abounds out there, because as it turns out,

When he made saves, some compared him to Bile, a goalkeeper his father had played with. They began to call him Bile until his nickname evolved into Pele for good.
Pele himself admitted that he had never liked this pseudonym, since his real name 'Edson' came from the inventor Thomas Edison and he was proud of it. He even came to blows with the schoolmate who invented it, which resulted in a two-day suspension from school.
He also said that since it means nothing in his language, he thought it was an insult but that changed once he discovered that, in Hebrew, it means "miracle".
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His name took second place, as he was called Pele from an early age. After his three World Cups he also earned the nickname 'King'. The 1958 World Cup that brought Pele's Brazil to prominence was the first time the nickname 'O Rei' arrived.
Why was Pele called Pele, what is his real name and the origin of the nickname 'O'Rei'?

This stuff turns out to be more literal that even I would suspect.

Pelé’s crowning glory was a pass, one played with a nonchalant ease in the fading minutes of the World Cup final in 1970, a moment of glorious, acoustic simplicity from a player whose name had been made and whose legend had been burnished because of his mastery of the impossibly complex.
The pass itself was not easy because of Pelé’s quick, brilliant mind, or because of his flawless technique, or because of the economy of his movement. It was not a pass that he made look easy. It was, by the standards of those who can breathe in the rarefied air of a World Cup final, a pass that was easy.
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That it should be that version of Pelé that is most readily recalled is not because it represented his pinnacle but because it was the most easily accessible: 1970 was the first World Cup broadcast in vivid Technicolor — those bright yellow jerseys set against rich green fields — and beamed directly into millions of homes around the globe.
Pelé, a Name That Became Shorthand for Perfection

Pelé 'O Rei':

So, the simplest acronym for this year—תשפג—is “May it be a Year of Great Wonder” (תְּהֵא שְׁנַת פֶּלֶא גָּדוֹל). The “Great Wonder” that we are anticipating this year is the coming of Mashiach...

Pelé's fame is even pegged to 1970 via vivid Technicolor. Luv it!

Historian Thomas Hughes has attributed Edison's success to his development of an entire, integrated system of electric lighting.

It's like that meme:

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy."

😀

~ EZ