a person's name, fairly common in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos (attested as male); also seen near Tetzcoco and Huexotzinco (also attested male); the name may translate "ideal bean," as seen in Cheryl Claassen and Laura Ammon, Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (2022), citing a census of 1530.
ytoca nochvetl = named Nochhuetl (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
yz ca yteycauh y nochhuetli ytonca tençozonmoc ha° mocuatequia = Here is Nochhuetl's younger sibling, named Teçoçomoc, not baptized.(Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
yn ioquich ytoca nohvetl [sic] = Her husband is named Nochhuetl.... (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
mjn. nochhuetl = Martín Nochhuetl (the glyph has a nopal cactus flower, nochtli, and below it a standing drum, huehuetl) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
franco nochhuetl [also written nochhue] = Francisco Nochhuetl the glyph has a nopal cactus flower, nochtli, and below it a standing drum, huehuetl) (Tepetlaoztoc), sixteenth century)