molotl.

Headword: 
molotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a common house finch (see Molina); also, a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants: 
Mollotl
Alonso de Molina: 

molotl. pardal, o gorrion.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

MOLO-TL, House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) [FC: 48 Molotl]: “It is chalky, ashen, dark ashen; short-billed; medium sized, small; agile, a hopper; a singer. It is a warbler, a talker. It is capable of domestication; it is teachable; it can be bred.… The completely ashen one is the hen, and the chili-red-headed one is the cock…. It sings constantly. It hops about, it hops almost constantly. It is agile; it moves with agility.” Certainly, the House Finch. The male may be distinguished as CUACHICHIL/NŌCH-TŌTŌ-TL.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1963); and, and, with quotation selections, synthesis, and analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

yn iyoquich ytoca mollotl = Her husband is named Molotl. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 146–147.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nicteanilitoh molotl yc moxtlauaz = por un gorrión que le tomé, para que se pague (Tulancingo, México, 1577)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 196–197.