Xoco (MH524v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xoco ("Youngest," attested here as a woman's name) shows a frontal view of a ceramic pot (comitl) and what may be a fruit (xocotl]. The object that may be a fruit has some shading on the right side (from the viewer's perspective), giving it some three-dimensionality. The fruit sits on top of the ceramic pot. Both are vertical. The pot appears to have three handles, at least. There may be a fourth on the back that is not visible.
Stephanie Wood
The pot seems to be a phonetic complement ("co") for the second syllable of the name of the fruit ("xocotl"). The fruit may be rather sour, possibly feeding into the adjective for sour, xococ (also in the dictionary list). Two place name glyphs from the Codex Mendoza (below) show how the fruits appear on the tree. They are very round, whereas the fruit in this image looks more like a pear shape (with a stem). Xoco is a very common name for women, indicating birth order. This glyph is really entirely a phonetic prompt that would lead the reader to come up with the birth order name, youngest child.
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ana xoco
Ana Xoco
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1560
Stephanie Wood
fruits, frutas, cerámica, ceramics, jarros, tazones, última hija, orden de nacimiento, nombres de hombres

Xoco, a name, youngest child, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoco
xoco(tl), a hog plum or some other fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocotl
xoco octli, a wine made from plums, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoco-octli
xocoatl, a drink made from maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocoatl
xococ, something sour, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xococ
Última Hija Menor
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 524v, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=128&st=image
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