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Castañeda.

Headword: 
Castañeda.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname taken by various indigenous nobles (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Nahuatl don Baleriano Castañeda gobernador yn nican altepetl Tlaxcallan. = Yo don Baleriano Castañeda gobernador aqui en la ciudad de Tlaxcala. [Parece haber escrito un documento en náhuatl dirigido a su alguacil, Feliciano Tizamitl. Lo firma y da la fecha de 1543. Posiblemente fue un estudiante en al convento Franciscano de Tlaxcala, donde aprendió escribir en náhuatl.] (Tlaxcala, 1543)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en Náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 2.

Doña Luisa de la Cerda married don Pedro de Castañeda, both being residents of Tlalmanalco, and they had a son named don Diego de Castañeda. (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 102–103.

Don Alonso de Castañeda was the Nahua noble from Cuauhtinchan, near Cholula, who commissioned the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, perhaps around 1546.
Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2009), xii.