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de Gante.

Headword: 
de Gante.
Principal English Translation: 

the name of one of the earliest friars, Fray Pedro de Gante, who created a school, San José de los Naturales, and taught Nahua youth (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 164–165.

Orthographic Variants: 
de Gate
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents de Gante in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Some indigenous men took the name de Gante. For example, we see Juan "de Gate," father of Lucía and husband of Anastacia, residents of San Martín (a barrio of Tlatelolco?) mentioned in a baptismal record from Tlatelolco from September 1586.
Analysis by Stephanie Wood. See Caja 21, Archivo Histórico de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de México, Convento Franciscano de San Gabriel, San Pedro Cholula, Puebla.

Several Nahua men in the area of Huexotzinco also took the name de Gante and even more were called Toribio. See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs. (SW)

yta pedro de gante pohui tetzcocapan = Her father was Pedro de Gante of Tetzcocapanl. (Huexotzinco, 1619) [This is one of many namesakes for the famous friar in the book of the deceased of Huexotzinco at this time. (SW)]
The Book of the Dead from Huexotzoinco (1619–1640), ed. Tara Malanga (2025), 32–33.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

frai P[edr]o de Gante yn ixquich tictequitizq'[ue] 12 mill cenxiquipilli ypa[n] matlactzontli = fray Pedro de Gante mencionó que por todo tributaríamos 12 mil [pesos]
(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 186–187.

Septiembre 1567 ypa[n] in mocuicamachtique teopantlaca pipilcuicatl in quimomachtique ompa teopa[n] momachtiaya yte[n]copa in totatzin frai Pe[dr]o de Gante (...) Auh in macehualcuicanime q'[ui]ntlaqualtiaya in teopa[n] tlaca ynic q'[ui]nmachtique. = Septiembre de 1567, entonces estudiaron el canto la gente de la iglesia [teopantlaca], estudiaron el pipilcuicatl; allá en el templo estudiaban por mandato de nuestro padre fray Pedro de Gante (...) Y la gente de la iglesia [teopantlaca] daba de comer en el templo a los cantores macehuales para enseñarlos. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 164–165.