Xochitl (MH741v)

Xochitl remains a very popular name for Indigenous Mexican women to this day. In fact, it seems to have had a revival in the 20th and 21st centuries. In this database, where women’s names are more scarce than men’s--given the nature of the source, which focus on male heads of household as tribute payers—we can still see enough of them to recognize the numerical importance of Xochitl, especially as one element in a compound name. Here are some examples: https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/advsearch-all-grid?field_sign_t... . Perhaps surprisingly, while xochitl is a day name in the religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli, we do not see many names involving flowers that seem to make a calendrical reference. Also, it is worth noting that men’s names will involve both xochitl and cihuatl in their name compounds. So, it is an incorrect stereotype to assume a name containing -xoch- will be a woman’s name.