a personal name that combines a Spanish surname (Alvarado) taken by an Indigenous noble and a Nahua name, Yoyontli, here given in the reverential (see attestations)
This was a name held by an indigenous noble in Tetzcoco in the sixteenth century. He was a younger brother to don Hernando Cortés Ixtlilxochitzin (note how both took the names of the highest leaders of the Spanish invasion party and combined the European names with their own indigenous names). (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Auh ca çan no iuh quimochihuili yn tlacatl notlatzin Don Jorge de aluarado yoyontzin ca aoc tle quimomaquili aoc tle quimotlauhtili yn tlacatl notlatzin Don herdo cortes ixtlilxochitzin = For the lord my uncle don Jorge de Alvarado Yoyontzin did the same. He gave nothing to the lord my uncle don Hernando Cortés Ixtlilxochitzin. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)