a divine force, usually translated as Cloud Serpent; said in the Florentine Codex to be the only deity worshipped by the Chichimecs (Sahagún); also, a personal name taken by Nahua men
Seen as the name of a fifteen-year-old (gender not specified), Miscovatl (i.e. Mixcoatl), in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos, Mexico. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
In juh ipan mjtoa, ce iaomjquj, in telpuchtepitzin iaomjqujco mexico, in vexotzincatl itoca Mixcoatl = Thus is it said of one who died in war, a small youth who came to die in war in Mexico. He was an inhabitant of Uexotzinco named Mixcoatl (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
franco. mixcoatl (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Also a plentiful name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco.