M

a woman of mixed European and African heritage
(a loanword from Spanish)

a Spanish name, but also carried by others; e.g. don Diego Muñoz Camargo (1529–1599), the author of a History of Tlaxcala; his father was a Spaniard who served with Hernando Cortés (the expedition leader against the Aztecs) and his mother was Nahua (of Tlaxcala); he served as municipal governor of Tlaxcala during some years; his son, of the same name, was municipal governor of Tlaxcala (1608–1613); the son married doña Francisca Maxixcatzin, heiress to the rulership of Ocotelolco

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 173–174.